On Wednesday 01 September 2010 21:39:53 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> > What is in KDE:KDE3 is the same as what was in OpenSUSE when it
> > included KDE3 (11.0). And it always was maintained in KDE:KDE3, just the
> > most
> > stable packages were included in the official repo.
>
> And are they in the official repository now?  

Some packages (kdebase3-runtime, kdelibs3 etc) are still in the official
repo they are in fact copyed from KDE:KDE3 repository. When
KDE3 was the official part of OpenSUSE the KDE3 packages were also 
copied from the KDE:KDE3 repo which existed always and included slightly more
packages than the official OpenSUSE repo. So OpenSUSE always included
a subset of KDE:KDE3.

> If so then OpenSUSE has a 
> more open mind than Ubuntu.  If not, at least they were polite enough to
> remove them so as to avoid conflicts with the KDE3 repository.

There are no conflicts. The packages in OpenSUSE=the packages in KDE:KDE3
by the date of OpenSUSE feature freeze.

>
> >> and transfer complete
> >> control of the KDE3 system to the KDE3 repository maintainers.

It always was there. And I am now one of those maintainers, I do with KDE3 
repository whatever I want and this goes directly to OpenSUSE main repo
in the case the packages in question were not yet dropped from OpenSUSE.

> > Do you use Dolpin instead of Konq as some people say?

But some people say you broke the file manager so it is not as good as Konq in 
KDE3 was.