On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 9:59 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I've had the night to sleep on it, and I now see that you are totally
right.
I was getting so excited about the ability to always have a newer KDE
on RHEL, that I forgot the reason I run RHEL and it's clones in the
first place ... stability.
On the other hand, particularly when it comes to desktops/workstations, one
of the problems with RHEL and the clones is you end up unable to run the
software you want because the outside desktop software ecosystem has move
too far forward after about 3 years let alone the full length of support
for those releases (as there is in a way an acknowledgement from Red Hat on
this issue, where they now provide newer compilers and associated stuff on
the side to reflect the reality that compilers/languages are moving at a
much faster pace than when RHEL had its first release).
So as a user, I think the first question is perhaps what sort of KDE
experience do the people willing to do the work to make it available on
RHEL want to provide. If you want to make it stay at the same release as
when first offered, then RPMS might provide the best/easiest solution to
make it available. On the other hand, if you either want to keep it up to
date or use a 2 or 3 release cycle, then perhaps the module route might be
more appropriate given that some key things are controlled by Red Hat.