App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Monday May 06, 2002 02:51, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> 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.

Gee, what a surprise, he likes the idea.  I wonder, hmm, does it have to do 
with the possibility of a TheKompany KDE Distribution, that replaces 
select KDE/KOffice with propreitary junk from TheKompany/Hancom?

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