[arch-general] What's with kdemod packages and kdemod plasmoids?

[Daniel Isenmann]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:23:11 -0700 (PDT)
Alexander Kotlerman <shura1990 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've got a question for everyone:
> 
> Why is it that kdemod is not cleanly packaged in arch linux? I mean,
> I try to install kdemod-extragear group but I can't beacuse there are
> conflicts: packages like kdemod-extragear-bespin,
> kdemod-extragear-bespin-svn, and kdemod-extragear-bespin-svn are all
> part of kdemod-extragear and prevent the whole group from installing.
> The same goes for plasmoids. I cannot install kdemod-plasmoids
> because it takes doubles and pacman complains that a file exists in
> both packages! Another reason for this rant is plasmoids not being to
> run at all. My lancelot plasmoid does not work at all! It just comes
> up with "can not find required component: lancelot_launcher"
> 
> Anyone want to take a stab at this?
> 
>  Alexander Kotlerman (Shura)


Hi,

I hope that you know that kdemod isn't officially from ArchLinux. It's
from another project called "Chakra". I have seen that they have a
mailing list and a forum specific for kdemod. Maybe you get better
answers for kdemod there. 

Cheers,
 Daniel