Wrolf Courtney wrote: > Hello everyone. Hello Wrolf, > Trying to put together a live USB thumbdrive with a set of astronomy > packages for casual user (naked eye or binoculars, look at Mars directly > overhead/phase of moon for camping trip/etc.). > > I eventually realized that with xephem out due to licensing, I needed > KStars, which in Fedora is part of the kdeedu RPM. > > So to have an Astronomy spin, we have to drag in KLatin, Konqueror, etc. > Does not seem right. > > Can we have just a kstars RPM, like in other distros? Perhaps the kdeedu > rpm could have a dependency on a kstars RPM? > > Otherwise the Astronomy spin is doomed to always have khangman. Does > every astronomer require Hangman on their desk? I've just talked about this issue today. kdeedu package will be slitted, but only after KDE4. I agree that this needs to be resolved, we won't pull extra mega of stuff with only kstars needed. Putting Than, the KDE maintainer, in CC. I hope he responds to this message. > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml for the same > issue in Gentoo and their solution. > > Wrolf -- Marek Mahut https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/ Fedora Project http://www.jamendo.com/
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