[arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

[David Rosenstrauch]

Attila wrote:
> On Montag, 11. August 2008 18:07 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 
>> I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks
>> it's worth the switch
> 
> I'm frustated as you but i must say that there was no way for the arch devs to
> make it right for everyone. Imagine that there is no kde4 in the repos and
> than you will read a lot of "i want kde4" wishes instead of "i want my kde3
> back".

I have no qualms with what the devs did.  KDE4 is out, and so the Arch 
devs have to upgrade to it.  (And in fact, IMO, they even were pretty 
cautious about the upgrade, waiting several months until 4.1 was 
released before upgrading.)  Arch is a distro that uses "bleeding edge" 
software, and we all know that going in.  And if somebody wants to use 
old packages, the onus is on them to make it happen.

My qualms are with the KDE4 software itself.  I'm not saying it's bad. 
(In fact, I'll admit that I've barely even tried any of the new 
functionality.)  It's just that it's a very big a change to a lot of 
important desktop functionality that I rely on, and would be too 
disruptive for me to switch over right now.

I probably could get used to it over time, though, which is why I'd like 
to be able to install KDE 3 and 4 simultaneously, and so be able to 
switch into KDE4 and kick the tires every now and then, without having 
to completely wipe KDE3 off my system.

The state I'm in now (keeping KDE3 via a number of IgnorePkg directives 
in my pacman.conf) is not sustainable long-term, so I'm going to have to 
get a bit more proactive soon and come up with some solution.

DR