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

[Attila]

On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:38 David Rosenstrauch wrote:

I have had the same feeling as you and take first a look at it in my arch64
test partition. If you have such a possibility too or a virtual machine with
archlinux than give it a try.

> * They build break KDE into small, modular packages, instead of just
> using the packaging supplied by upstream KDE.  I use most of the apps
> that KDE supplies, and so don't care about the modularity.

In the first moment as i only read this on their homepage i think the same as
you but now i must admit that i enjoy removing some of this little apps which
i never use.-)

> * They patch the upstream KDE packages in a number of ways.  I strongly
> prefer to use packages that are as unpatched and plain vanilla from
> upstream as possible.

The patches been well documented and you can browse through their svn
repository. I can understand you again and the only thing what i can say is
that i don't have the feeling that they have useless patches.

Still again this be only my minds and no commands.-)

See you, Attila