On Monday, September 06, 2010 01:19:13 am Chris Smart wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In addition to what Rex said above, it would also cause massive bloat to > > update metadata, hurting even people who don't run KDE at all (at every > > single update push, even those which don't touch KDE packages, you still > > have to download all the metadata each time it changes), and possibly > > adding up to a lot more bandwidth than what you save by not downloading > > some apps. > > Interesting thought, I wonder what the consequences would actually be. > Anyway, Rex said that we're moving towards a more modular KDE anyway, > because of the ability to run them on netbooks, etc. Will be > interesting to see if this becomes a problem. We are moving towards more likely "logical units" instead of complete splits - like minimal packages that makes sense etc. On the other hand - upstream wants to aim more on individual applications instead of one big packages (but still packaged together). R. > > All this has been pointed out in previous threads. It would really help > > if users would read the f… uh… fine ;-) mailing list archives rather > > than asking the same questions again and again! > > As mentioned, I did go through all threads for 2010.. > > -c > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
