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Subject: Re: kickoff - alternative KDE Menu
From: Kelly <lightsolphoenix () gmail ! com>
Date: 2007-09-08 20:45:53
Message-ID: 200709081645.54541.lightsolphoenix () gmail ! com
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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.
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