packaging rant

[Rex Dieter]

On 02/25/2010 10:40 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
> I don't know if this is the proper list to post this to or not. However,
> there seems to be a problem with the way that, at least KDE apps are
> packaged as monolithic packages. That is, if you want some aspects of KDE
> Multimedia, you have to get *all* of KDE-MultiMedia, you can't just pick
> and choose what parts you want.

This is a FAQ, and discussed many many times.  I suggest you search the 
archives.

However, in this case, your comment is laiden with a least a small 
amount of merit :).  We're thinking about it, it just didn't happen in 
time for 4.4.  Another TODO for 4.5 perhaps.

-- Rex