A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.

[Bo Thorsen]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:00, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> Hello KDE-Core-Developers,
>
> it is not nice to come in ranting and complaining in the very first
> message to a mailinglist, but the rant is short and the reasoning
> valid, at least IMHO.
>
> I am involved in porting/packaging KDE for the FreeBSD
> ports-collection. Revisiting kdeaddons for the recent release of KDE
> 3.2 reminded me of an old idea I had for quite some time now: Why not
> just remove it?

Any rant that leaves to a better system is a good rant.

> [...]
> My humble suggestion: Axe kdeaddons. Preferably in time for KDE 3.3.

I completely agree. It is just annoying and an unnecessary complication 
with no real benefit.

Having this also makes the parallel builds (where you start building all 
packages after kdelibs is done) slightly more annoying.

Bo.
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