kwebkitpart default or optional for F15+?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Nov 24 22:32:52 UTC 2010


alekcejk at googlemail.com wrote:
> kwebkitpart will be not installed as kdebase and kdenetwork dependency
> sinse KDE 4.6. So we should decide to add kwebkitpart to comps as default
> or optional.

Optional. KDE works perfectly and is fully featured without it, it's just 
redundant.

> In KDE < 4.6 kwebkitpart was installed by default as dependency of
> kdebase, kdenetwork and konq-plugins. Users had possibility to select
> between KHTML and WebKit view modes in Konqueror. Some sites works better
> with WebKit. So if we decide to not install kwebkitpart as default then
> some users may lose needed WebKit functionality if they reinstall F15
> system.

Those users can just install the package, as any other non-default package 
they want. That's what the repository is for.

        Kevin Kofler



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