kdelibs, kdebase moving to Git this Saturday

Frank Reininghaus frank78ac at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 29 10:09:13 GMT 2011


2011/1/28 Nicolas Alvarez:
> The kdebase-runtime repository is currently 260MB, and kdebase-workspace
> is 300MB. Apparently it's because of wallpapers and icons, either in the
> current revision or in the past.
>
> Removing wallpapers from kdebase-workspace would bring it down to 190MB
> (100MB less). I haven't yet tested kdebase-runtime.
>
> What do you all think of removing wallpapers from these git repositories?
> We could put them in a separate git repository, or even keep them in SVN.

Looks like a good idea to me. The wallpapers and even the wallpaper
history will not be of much use to most developers, so having them in
kdebase-workspace would cost lots of hard drive space and bandwidth
with no real benefit.

Cheers,
Frank




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