Hello everyone.
Trying to put together a live USB thumbdrive with a set of astronomy packages for casual user (naked eye or binoculars, look at Mars directly overhead/phase of moon for camping trip/etc.).
I eventually realized that with xephem out due to licensing, I needed KStars, which in Fedora is part of the kdeedu RPM.
So to have an Astronomy spin, we have to drag in KLatin, Konqueror, etc. Does not seem right.
Can we have just a kstars RPM, like in other distros? Perhaps the kdeedu rpm could have a dependency on a kstars RPM?
Otherwise the Astronomy spin is doomed to always have khangman. Does every astronomer require Hangman on their desk?
See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml for the same issue in Gentoo and their solution.
Wrolf
Wrolf Courtney wrote:
Hello everyone.
Hello Wrolf,
Trying to put together a live USB thumbdrive with a set of astronomy packages for casual user (naked eye or binoculars, look at Mars directly overhead/phase of moon for camping trip/etc.).
I eventually realized that with xephem out due to licensing, I needed KStars, which in Fedora is part of the kdeedu RPM.
So to have an Astronomy spin, we have to drag in KLatin, Konqueror, etc. Does not seem right.
Can we have just a kstars RPM, like in other distros? Perhaps the kdeedu rpm could have a dependency on a kstars RPM?
Otherwise the Astronomy spin is doomed to always have khangman. Does every astronomer require Hangman on their desk?
I've just talked about this issue today. kdeedu package will be slitted, but only after KDE4. I agree that this needs to be resolved, we won't pull extra mega of stuff with only kstars needed.
Putting Than, the KDE maintainer, in CC. I hope he responds to this message.
See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml for the same issue in Gentoo and their solution.
Wrolf
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