Hello, all!
As you can see from my signature below, I am the Ark Linux Webmaster and have a desire to also be a packager for Ark Linux. Ark is meant to be easy enough for new Linux users (and even people who are new to computers in general), simple enough for the "normal" user (e.g. the home or office user, rather than geeks, hobbyists, and admins), and powerful enough for our veteran Linux users.
It has been quite some time since Ark made a release (since 2008) because our main developer and project leader has been extremely busy with his day job and has not had much time to actually develop. We are still very much alive, though, and have tied ourselves into using KDE4 for our next release by making an official announcement stating as such. This was before we discovered Trinity's KDE3. We would now like to include Trinity in our next release.
We'll still be using KDE4, but we are undecided on whether to include both on the main ISO, or to create two separate ISOs. Whichever we decide, we want to make both available. I have volunteered to package it. I am a novice packager (RPM), though, and would like to know if it would be a good idea to use the old RPM Spec files from the packages of the official KDE 3.5.10 release, or if I should go down the route of making my own Specs. I know that Trinity switched to cmake, which would require a bit of modifications to the Specs, but would it be worth it?
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Kris
"Piki"
Ark Linux Webmaster
Wannabe Ark Linux packager