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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Erik Kjær Pedersen on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @07:36

It is actually a major problem for some of us. I am chairman of the Math. Department in Binghamton. We are running around 30 desktops with Redhat and Kde, mostly Dell machines. I chose Redhat because it is dominant around here, and Kde because it is stable. We recently installed the Redhat rpms for Kde2 on Redhat7. These rpms do not contain any documentation files. They contain the uncompiled index.docbook files, so practically no help function is working.
(Only the programs that have not been updated to docbook format). They contain the translations for languages starting from a to h. Apparently they crashed on Hebrew. Redhat 7 broke wordperfect 8 which is absolutely essential to us until kword is a little more finished. We found out solving the problem by installing a couple of libraries from Redhat 6.2. I told Redhat they ought to post that on their website and got an incredibly snooty answer back, saying that Wordperfect was Corels responsibility not theirs. Having the upgrade break the programs of the competition is something I seem to have heard of before :). The fact that we get a snooty answer to telling them about the solution to a problem, I find a bit too much. They decided to stop Solaris support without any warning, which means we have about 8 machines we cannot keep uptodate. They are pretty old, so we can live with that, but the fact that they have not produced decent Kde2 rpms is very irritating. I realize we only send about $300 pr year to Redhat (and less in the future because Solaris is not supported), so we can not demand too much, but at least I can confirm that they have a strange attitude to kde. I really long for the days when the Redhat rpms for kde were made by the kde developers.

Erik Kjær Pedersen
chair, Dept. Of Math. Sci.
Binghamton University

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Bero on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @10:57

The fact that the initial RPMs didn't have docs were caused by the fact that the released version of kdoc 2.0 couldn't process the kdelibs docs.

This has been fixed in the later builds, available from ftp://ftp.linux-easy.com/pub/kde/ and ftp.kde.org.
If you notice any other bugs, please report them - either directly to me or through bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/).
I don't remember seeing a bug report about this from you.

As for breaking WordPerfect, it's offtopic here, but it was actually announced in the release notes that we're discontinuing support for libc 5.x packages. libc 5.x has been obsolete for about 3 years now, definitely enough time for anyone to update his applications.
Sorry about the snooty answers you got - some people around here tend to get aggressive when they're getting a couple of "bug reports" reporting an announced "feature". The tone may not have been right, but the content probably was.
(May I ask where you sent the message?)

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