On Thursday 25 February 2010 20:40:17 John Aldrich wrote: > On Thursday 25 February 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: > > This is a FAQ, and discussed many many times. I suggest you search the > > archives. > > > > However, in this case, your comment is laiden with a least a small > > amount of merit :). We're thinking about it, it just didn't happen in > > time for 4.4. Another TODO for 4.5 perhaps. > > Thanks, Rex. All I can do is ask that you guys work on it. OTOH, I may have > gotten you a volunteer helper... :-) I posted something similar on the > regular Fedora list and someone there said "they don't have the > manpower...maybe if you volunteered..." in response to which someone else > piped up and said "hey, I've been looking for a way to volunteer...." :-) > So, maybe you'll get some help that you need. :-) Manpower is not the only one problem. Kevin has concerns how this change affects updates infrastructure - this changes means lot of new packages. Even now with monolithic packages it's a huge number... For first time - it would need lot of work to to split packages, even maintaining would introduce some overhead. As we usually answer - if you have a good reason for split for some particular application - fill in Bugzilla request and we try to fulfill your needs. Also these are small steps to more non-monolithic KDE packages. Jaroslav > It would be very nice if you were able to break up the packages a bit more > so that you don't have to install the kitchen sink to install a dishwasher > (to use a plumbing analogy.) :-) > > It's very frustrating to have so many apps in one package. I remember the > "good old days" when you got to choose which apps you wanted and didn't > have to install everything just to get one package. Now days it's like you > have to install a whole Office suite just to get a text editor. :-) > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -- Jaroslav ?ezn?k <jreznik at redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/
