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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: DANGER Fedora
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-04-30 20:07:22
Message-ID: 200404301707.23010.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>The developers are the people that need to address these issues since
>Fedora will not stop shipping a screwed GLibc and RedHat will not
> offer binary packages for KDE for RedHat 8 & 9.

If the Fedora users start complaining that they don't have KDE, that it 
won't work on Fedora but everywhere else, and they start bugging the 
Fedora developers, maybe they'll get a clue.

The proper solution is to fix the bug where it is, not to create 
workarounds. As current facts go, it seems that the bug is in Fedora's 
glibc. So that's where it should be fixed.

As for RH8 & 9 not having KDE binary packages, I'm sorry to say, but 
it's not an issue. Few are the distributions that actually do release 
packages for previous versions. A quick look at ftp.kde.org shows that 
the there are binary releases for KDE 3.2 for more than one version 
only for SuSE (8.2 and 9.0) and Debian (stable, woody, if I'm reading 
it correctly). For KDE 3.2.2, SuSE adds 9.1 and Debian has no packages. 
All the rest of the binary packages seem to be for one distribution 
version only.

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