On Saturday, September 8, 2007 10:28:20 am Johan Cwiklinski wrote: > Hi all, > > I've tried to package kickoof, a KDE's menu remplacement (listed on the > KDE SIG wiki page). > > The problem is kickoff is not really a new KDE menu, but a patched > kdebase/kicker. > So the package will not install new files and give user possibility to > switch from base menu to kickoff, but it will replace numerous kdebase > existing files. > > Suse Linux (who develops kickoff) have it integrated directly in kdebase > (so the old KDE menu is not available I guess). > > My question is what must I do for this package ? > > - I don't think direct integration into kdebase is a such good idea > (since there is no stable release for kickoff), and i'm not able to > patch kdebase package. > - Is there a way to backup existing files, so that base menu will > reappear if kickoff is uninstalled ? > - Or maybe this kind of package could not be build in respect of our > standards... > > Regards, > Johan You won't be able to get Kickoff to work properly in Fedora; it's been tried, and tried, and tried. Kickoff has dependencies on other packages that are in openSUSE but not Fedora... But if you still want to try, then I believe the right answer is to put Provides: kdebase in the package. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
