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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Development Policy
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-03-09 15:14:11
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On Saturday March 09, 2002 04:52, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> Moin,
>
> On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:03, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Fre, 08 Mär 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > - the libtool update does _not_ require an operating system upgrade.
> >   autoconf is a perl and m4 based package of less than 1MB size in
> > source. compiling and installing it takes less than 5 minutes, it is
> > compilable out of the box on about each and every broken system you
> > can think of.
>
> Many people dislike to install perl-based packages because usually it's
> hard to uninstall them (at least I felt like that with quite some
> sources using perl). That's why people prefer packaged-versions of
> things like automake etc.

Well, thanks to the heroics of Stephan Kulow that issue is moot.

> > > New leadership for KDE 3.1 is needed.
>
> Nah, the "leader" just has to change his strictness a little bit :)

That'd work, too.

-- 
Neil Stevens
neil@qualityassistant.com

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