Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 01:42 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> On April 20, 2002 16:37, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I fully agree with "one, complete and working choice could be possible if
> > the code was put together." But I don't see how banning software from KDE
> > supports that goal. On the contrary, I think that a whole or partial
> > merge of two applications is much more likely when they are side by side
> > in CVS.
>
>   Maybe we should ship the best one or two, and then provide a KDE
> appfinder or something like that, perhaps interfaced through apps.kde.com,
> so that people can download alternatives from a centralised place.  Since
> it provides a local listing of apps that KDE developers may recommend, it
> will be almost as easy as shipping the apps I think, but without the big
> download times.

I don't want to ship "the best one or two" but the rest sounds fine. I think 
_all_ applications should be packaged individually and then having some sort 
of appfinder that can install additional apps sounds fine. I would like to 
see that integrated with the distro-installers though because it would be 
strange to download an app from apps.kde.com when you also have it on the CD 
next to you.

I asked Ralf "What is the core distrubtion" but didn't get any response to 
that, so I would like to consider "kdelibs+kdebase" the core distribution. 
That should constitute the "Naked desktop" (kdenude.rpm >:-), everyhting else 
should then go into individual binary packages. The distributors can then 
decide for themselves what they want to put in their "default" installation.

I'm inclined to think that we should move kate and konsole (any others?) out 
of kdebase then. (And into kdeutils or so)

Cheers,
Waldo
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