From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Sep 10 10:48:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018F537B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (aragon.noos.net [212.198.2.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC4443E6E for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjuniet@entreview.com) Received: (qmail 3505589 invoked by uid 0); 10 Sep 2002 17:48:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO entreview.com) ([212.198.162.17]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.75 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Sep 2002 17:48:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3D7E307D.8000307@entreview.com> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:48:45 +0200 From: Christophe Juniet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Fonvieille Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, cjuniet@entreview.com Subject: Re: docs/42627: [PATCH] Update of the handbook chapter 15 about KOffice References: <200209101010.g8AAA6cs090953@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020910173554.GA190@marduk.blackend.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:10:06AM -0700, Christophe Juniet wrote: > >> In this specific case, the KOffice port needs KDE version *3* (and no >> other versions). I agree that `KDE' is a more general name but what if >> there are two different KOffice versions again? > > > Then the text would be wrong. When you use "pkg_add -r something" you > always have the latest version, have a look at XFree86 for example. So > you could not be sure that it will work with KDE3, if the new version is > for a new KDE. And it's also possible that a package requires, for > example, KDE-3.0.3 and can't work with KDE-3.0.2 Totally right. >> Also consider the case >> of a KDE2 user trying to install KOffice from a package. I think it >> will overwrite his KDE2 files with KDE3 ones. I may be wrong here since >> I didn't tried it. Anyway, the adding of the version number here comes >> from the fact that the (current) KOffice port is made for KDE3, as its >> names implies it (koffice-kde3). If you or the KDE Team think it's >> better to use `KDE' for the reasons you gave above, it makes sense as well. >> > > > KDE3 is the "standard" version of KDE under FreeBSD, and all QT apps are > upgraded (when it's possible) to QT3 to avoid conflict between QT2 and > QT3 (which is used by KDE3), KDE2 is not really supported. > I don't know if the name must be "generalized", I just know that the > text will be outdated quickly, and maybe adding a note about the need of > an up-to-date KDE version could do the trick. Good idea, I'm working on this addition. Sorry for the wrong patch, I'll send a better one. > Marc Thanks! -- chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message