App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Shawn Gordon]

At 02:44 PM 5/6/2002, you wrote:
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>On Monday May 06, 2002 01:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I support that. I am not opposed to the idea of releasing KDE 3.1 as
> > just kdelibs and kdebase and all the other packages could be released
> > independently (ether as one big packages or on an app by app basis) and
> > possibly on different schedules. That would make individual releases
> > smaller and easier to oversee and having different schedules would mean
> > that the workload for packagers and translators gets more evenly spread
> > over time. *)
>
>If this is done, I think KDE should, in the interests of accuracy, be
>renamed to the K Window and File Manager, since that's all it'll be
>anymore.  It won't actually be a complete environment of applications.  It
>won't even have basic mail capabilities anymore!

good lord - this is never going to end is it.  This is actually a good idea 
I think, especially since there isn't a "KDE Distribution" per se,  either 
people build it on their own, or get it from their distribution.

Neil: are you going to create the "official" KDE distribution?  Or even 
make "Neils KDE"?  The CVS and the accompanying files are getting really 
really large, and now (well it's existed before) but you have this 
situation with KOrganizer and KAddressBook being in different repositories 
and moving anything starts to cause problems, so you end up with duplication.

What would be nice is a base distro and then something like apt-get or the 
gentoo stuff that pulls either source or binary packages and builds them 
for you or installs them.  you've already got a huge portion of this setup 
with the apps.kde.com back end.

>- --
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