http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/whats-cooking/"
KDE. How to begin? There are some stirrings in the KDE camp.
We are nearing the end of the KDE 4.6 series. Two more updates will
see the light: 4.6.4 should be available in a few days and 4.6.5 is the
final update, expected in early july. But considering the fact that the
previous 4.6.3 experienced delays, it may take a little longer before I
can start on packaging 4.6.4.
The new series 4.7.x proves to be a bigger challenge for Slackware.
We saw that the 4.6. series moved away from HAL and instead requires udisks/upower (which was the reason for sticking with 4.5.5 in Slackware 13.37). The KDE developers have now finalized their move from CVS to GIT
as the source control and version management system. The result is less
than optimally arranged for packagers. The old “monolithic” source
tarballs are now being split into many additional tarballs for
individual applications. This means we have rewrite our scripts and
possibly add a lot of packages. While this may be advantageous for some
other distros with dedicated packaging teams, for us Slackware people it
is a time for decisions.
After talking to Pat Volkerding, I announced on the KDE packager
mailing list that we are considering the same solution as was chosen for
GNOME in the past: remove KDE fro***ackware if it proves to become a maintenance burden. I can not yet say anything final about this. For the time being, I have decided not to create Slackware packages for the KDE Software Compilation 4.7.x."
"remove KDE fro***ackware if it proves to become a maintenance burden." !!!!!!