Modular KDE?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday, September 06, 2010 01:19:13 am Chris Smart wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > In addition to what Rex said above, it would also cause massive bloat to
> > update metadata, hurting even people who don't run KDE at all (at every
> > single update push, even those which don't touch KDE packages, you still
> > have to download all the metadata each time it changes), and possibly
> > adding up to a lot more bandwidth than what you save by not downloading
> > some apps.
> 
> Interesting thought, I wonder what the consequences would actually be.
> Anyway, Rex said that we're moving towards a more modular KDE anyway,
> because of the ability to run them on netbooks, etc. Will be
> interesting to see if this becomes a problem.

We are moving towards more likely "logical units" instead of complete splits - 
like minimal packages that makes sense etc. On the other hand - upstream wants 
to aim more on individual applications instead of one big packages (but still 
packaged together).

R. 
> > All this has been pointed out in previous threads. It would really help
> > if users would read the f… uh… fine ;-) mailing list archives rather
> > than asking the same questions again and again!
> 
> As mentioned, I did go through all threads for 2010..
> 
> -c
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