I just got a brilliant idea: Let pacman handle all these. So I added a set of packages which will make the transition from our current KDE
the splitted one really smooth.
As a side effect they can be used by people who want to keep the current "monster" packages. By using those meta packages possible new
automatically installed on major updates.
Another bonus is that we don't need to recompile third party
On Friday 12 June 2009 05:28:15 am Pierre Schmitz wrote: package to packages will packages which
depend on certain KDE modules right now. (e.g. k3b, yakuake...)
See the self generating PKGBUILD at http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kde- meta/kde-unstable/PKGBUILD?view=markup
I'll put that into kde-unstable soon. Let's see if that really works. I just tested this, and it works perfectly the upgrade was so smooth. So far kde 4.3 is a great improvement, it does have some bugs and annoyances but is expected from a beta. Still kde 4.3 fixes a whole lot of bugs and annoyances introduced in kde4 since the beginning. Also it feels more polished and professional.