Gentoo News

The KDE team held a meeting on April 1, 2009. The items put up for discussion were:

• Removing kdeprefix for apps not in kde-base: reavertm explained that the goal was to drop the kdeprefix USE flag for all apps outside of kde-base/ and that he already started the work for it (including a rewriteof the eclasses) in the dropped-kdeprefix-on-non-kde-base branch in the kde-testing overlay. This means deprecating NEED_KDE in favor of KDE_REQUIRED and KDE_MINIMAL, so that packages are built not against the newest available KDE (when there's more than 1 version) but instead to the oldest - respecting KDE_MINIMAL. There was a long discussion about kdeprefix, its purpose, benefits and alternatives. The final consensus was to follow reavertm's solution. kdeprefix has been removed from all apps not in kde-base/.
• KDE3 state: Theo Chatzimichos explained the eclasses are ready to move all packages under /usr/kde/3.5/. He's still testing ebuilds and could use the help of 2 people to test kde-misc/ apps. wired and Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto offered to help. Theo Chatzimichos will prepare a list of packages and we're going to search for people through the page and a mail to the dev ml. To start the work on getting KDE4 marked stable, we agreed to get this work done by the end of the month - we'll be masking 3.5.9 monos as soon as we get 3.5.10 marked stable.
• Moving Plasmoids to the tree: Plasmoids were moved to the kde-misc/ category and will be added when they're tested with +kdeprefix.
• Adding printing packages to the tree: We've decided to hold this until KDE-4.3.
• Upstream response to the packaging snapshots mail: No reply again. As we're being ignored, we've decided to repackage the snapshots.
• Removing dead members: Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto went over the retirement bugs and sent emails to the members that are MIA. He will get the team membership cleaned before next meeting.
• pykde fixing: There are some problems with having more than one pykde version with +kdeprefix as it installs files outside the prefix. The solution might be to "unprefix" it or to have a new package just with the python files. In any case, Patrick Lauer was "nominated" to work on this.
• handling kdeprefix for base ... eselect: After some discussion we agreed eselect was not the solution.
• koffice status: Tomas Chvatal informed the team that koffice-2.0 is going to be released at the end of the month and asked what we should do about it. He decided not to add the RCs in the tree and will instead add the final release hard masked as the RCs weren't considered worthy.
• Moving meeting to another date: We decided to have KDE meetings at the 3rd Thursday of the month.
• As a final note, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto reminded people that we still have a *few* open bugs and that we should all try to help get that number down.

The complete meeting log is also available.