[kde-discuss] [osol-discuss] Will KDE4 .spec files be merged / contributed to SFE as well?

[Shawn Walker]

On Jan 24, 2008 5:10 PM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> > While GNOME may end up being the default desktop, absolutely no reason
> > why KDE packages should be a single pkg install away. Choice is good -
> > even for derivative distributions where KDE is that default desktop.
>
> Oh, I agree with you 100%, but just surprised to hear that change of
> position. I use KDE for my desktop and have for quite a number of years
> before I joined Sun.
>
> I am also looking foward to a single pkg install away, over the wire.
>
> KDE has never had Sun's blessing, and so be it. The community will make it
> work, that is what open source is about.

That isn't a change of position as far as I know. I distinctly
remember Ian saying something similar at the summit some time ago.

One of the major points of having a tool like ips is to allow easy
installation of software from other sources.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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