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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 3.1: delayed
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-12-06 16:24:41
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On Friday December 06, 2002 08:18, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org> wrote:
> > I share that opinion. The users have been waiting for 3.1 very long
> > now. A source release is IMHO better than none at all, especially
> > when it contains security fixes.
>
> Users hate pure source releases as far as I know.  I often have people
> telling me stuff like they don't get the RC because there were no RPMs
> for XXX. It takes an awful lot of time to compile everything.
>
> For a release as big as 3.1, I'd say binary packages were very
> important.

Then someone had better take down that page that says KDE only ships 
source.  If KDE is going to delay releases to make it convienent for 
binary packagers, then this should be documented.
- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
Delenda est Carthago
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