Modular KDE?

[Kevin Kofler]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> The long and short of it was that we concluded that while it would add a
> lot of flexbility, it would also add a lot of complexity that our
> (current) users didn't care for... as well as an added burden to
> packaging.

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.

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!

        Kevin Kofler