Bugs and irritations
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Fri Dec 11 07:27:01 UTC 2009
Knapp wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>>> Thinking I should've stuck with 8.04 now.
>>> I did that but it has not come to the point that I really need to
>>> upgrade because to much is old and broken. The internet moved on but
>>> 8.04 has not because all the moving is happening in the kde 4 packages
>>> now. I have moved to 9.10 but not because it is great yet but because
>>> it is good enough now.
>>>
>>>
>> Which is why the current way LTS releases are 'maintained' is a bit of a
>> farce. I can understand not touching stuff like glibc, qt libraries but
>> OpenOffice? You can also package things in such a way as to have two
>> versions of OpenOffice and many others installed side by side just like
>> you can get Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed side by side.
>
> I would strongly agree with you but in this case it is often a program
> written with kde 3 libs not being programmed or changed in years VS
> the same program but updated and maintained but for KDE 4. My
> understanding is that KDE 3 and KDE 4 can not be run on the same
> machine, at least not with ease.
?? Different libraries ??
Why not? KDE3 uses qt3 and KDE4 uses qt4. I don't see a problem?
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