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Re: KDE Package Policy Explained
by Joseph Nicholson on Wednesday 11/Apr/2001, @11:04

1st off- Hat's off to all the developers and volunteers worldwide. Your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated! You've made the transition from Windows to Linux so easy for many of my friends!
As far as I'm concerned you guys have better things to do than compile packages for every distribution. As a Helpful Hint, why not have direct links on the front page to the latest (unofficial or not) updated binaries ftp sites?

My big bone is with the distributions. I'll grant that for $30 you get quite a huge assortment of software. I can't complain about that. What I DO complain about - and many others is the whole broken libraries issue with Mandrake, Red Hat, et al. To get up to KDE 2.1.1 (Mandrake) there were (fortunately!) a few kind individuals out there who built their own packages to get past the Mandrake 7.2 glibc_2.2 update problem. Ditto for a few hundred other packages as well. If one or two people can compile all these packages, why can't one of Mandrakes' PAID programmers do this right?

I PAID for the email tech support (through McMillan Publishers) and only got an auto-bot response for the glibc update problem. I scoured the newsgroups and linux sites and never could get a clear answer about the updates (SORRY fellas- using rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps glibc* is NEVER a good idea!). I learned that the hard way when forcing an install of Star Office 5.0 back in the days of SuSE 5.3 (libc5). Broke a lot!

So distributors who expect us to pay good money for this software- GET ON THE BALL! You won't exactly win people over w/ these incompatibility issues vis a vis M$FT and may give a lot of people reason to switch back.

Oh, and for those of you having trouble with Mandrake 7.2 updates- try this site :::

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/

Here you'll find updates quicker than they come out on Manrakes' ''Cooker.'' And they WORK even if you still have glibc_2.1 on your system!

Many thanks to the guy who runs this site!
And kudos to the KDE developers!

_Joe

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