On Wednesday 16 September 2015 19:22:28 Felix Miata wrote: > Kevin Kofler composed on 2015-09-16 23:47 (UTC+0200): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> That is in part because both cannot coexist on the same installation. > >> OTOH, KDE3 can coexist and is still available. And in Fedora, TDE can > >> also > >> coexist with v5. > > > > That explanation is incomplete. No 2 major versions of KDE can coexist in > > the same prefix. The reason OpenSUSE's KDE 3 is parallel-installable (with > > KDE/Plasma 4 or Plasma 5) is that they used the /opt/kde3 prefix for it. > > They stopped doing that with their KDE 4 packaging and now use the > > standard > > /usr prefix instead. So they are now stuck in the same situation as we > > are. > > Just guessing, using /opt might have been so that kde2 and kde3 could have > been released in parallel, as happened with kde3 (in /opt) and kde4 > (standard), to avoid what happened when kde3 was deprecated in favor of kde4 > before it evolved into a similarly competent replacement. In openSUSE, kde3 > remains available in standard repos, though it's not available as a primary > DE selection in its installer. Looking at this discussion, I'm almost sure that people that would like to have KDE4 won't be bothered with having Plasma 5 installed, so Copr repo that removes Plasma 5 would be ideal for them :) I'm personally not that eager to get my system updated to latest release of Fedora, so I'm hoping when I will update, Plasma 5 will be much more usable to me. However, I can give some of my time to help track packages and add Obsoletes to spec files if somebody gives me separate Copr repo and some basic guidelines how one should work with such task. Regards, Piotr _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
