[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

[Robert Xu]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 13:46, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Quote: Robert Xu wrote on Wed, 23 March 2011 16:09
>>
>>> Trinity Qt4 support is experimental, you can see it in
>>> SVN.trinitydesktop.org
>>
>> I'm aware of that, that's why I said we need qt3-devel re-enabled in the
>> QT3 package.
>> I don't want to build the current version with experimental QT4 support.
>>
>>> And truthfully, if you want to bring Trinity to Mageia, you should
>>> wait for release 3.5.13 - because with an autoconf > 2.63, the build
>>> breaks.
>>
>> I'm aware of the autoconf issue but I found a workaround [1] and I have
>> managed to build a libtqtinterface RPM so far with the workaround.
>>
>> Are you a TrinityDE developer?
>> I saw your name on the trinity-dev ML.
>> If yes then maybe you could be a great help for packaging up TrinityDE on
>> Mageia, if you feel like helping with it. :)
>>
>> Do you know when 3.5.13 will be released? Is the release imminent?
>> If it's imminent then I agree it's best to wait.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/packages/libtqtinter
>> face/libtqtinterface.spec
>>
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>>
> Hi,
>
> After looking to the source tarball which is huge ( 600 Mo ), I see some pbs:
>
> [dmorgan at localhost kde_trinity_3_5_11]$ ls
> applications/  kdeaccessibility/  kdeadmin/    kdebase/
> kde-common/  kdegames/     kde-i18n/  kdemultimedia/  kdepim/
> kdetoys/   kdevelop/   konstruct/
> dependencies/  kdeaddons/         kdeartwork/  kdebindings/  kdeedu/
>  kdegraphics/  kdelibs/   kdenetwork/     kdesdk/  kdeutils/
> kdewebdev/  libraries/
> [dmorgan at localhost kde_trinity_3_5_11]$ ls applications/
> abakus/                        gtk-qt-engine/     kde-guidance/
> kile/               knights/       ksplash-engine-moodin/  rosegarden/
> adept/                         gwenview/          kde-style-lipstik/
> kima/               knowit/        ksquirrel/
> smartcardauth/
> amarok/                        k3b/               kde-style-qtcurve/
> kio-apt/            knutclient/    ksystemlog/             smb4k/
> basket/                        k9copy/            kdesudo/
> kio-locate/         koffice/       ktechlab/
> soundkonverter/
> compizconfig-backend-kconfig/  kaffeine/          kdesvn/
> kio-umountwrapper/  konversation/  ktorrent/               tellico/
> desktop-effects-kde/           kaffeine-mozilla/  kde-systemsettings/
> kmplayer/           kopete-otr/    kuickshow/
> wlassistant/
> digikam/                       katapult/          kdiff3/
> kmyfirewall/        kpicosim/      kvirc/                  yakuake/
> dolphin/                       kbarcode/          kdirstat/
> knemo/              kpowersave/    kvkbd/
> filelight/                     kbfx/              kdmtheme/
> knetload/           kradio/        kwin-style-crystal/
> filelight-l10n/                kchmviewer/        kdpkg/
> knetstats/          krename/       piklab/
> fusion-icon/                   kcpuload/          keep/
> knetworkmanager/    krusader/      potracegui/
> [dmorgan at localhost kde_trinity_3_5_11]$
>
> The issues we see that are blocking are :
>
> we can't/won't package/add  twice the same apps, one for TDE and one
> for KDE and this issue is a blocker one.
>
> I would prefer to see TDE in a external repository for now. ( i.e you
> work locally to reenable qt3, package TDE, ... and then we can start
> to review all this and talk about integration in mageia )
>
> This will mess with menus too because users will have 2 times the
> icons of K3b, and can lead to deps issues, files conflicts, how is
> called K3b binary files ? k3b ? so it will conflict with "normal" k3b
> and so on for the other apps.
>
> For Robert Xu on opensuse this is a completly != issue as repos are
> "seperated", but that would be nice to have a 3rd "external" repo for
> this :)
>
> My 2cts
>

And I hate to double post, but I do know that the %configure_kde3
macro should point to /opt/kde3... :)

-- 
later, Robert Xu