On Sunday 05 May 2002 02:03, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > You snipped the part about sophisticated users being able to find wha=
t
> > they want w/out it being in the "core" packages.  Do you disagree wit=
h
> > that?
>
> I don't believe in the whole notion of "core" packages. IMO the only co=
re
> that we have is kdelibs (for apps/developers) and kdebase (basic runtim=
e
> environment) and everything else is "apps" in my book.

I strongly disagree here. IMO it is important for KDE to ship a set of=20
"standard" applications. It is very nice to just know that kmix or kcalc =
are=20
there when you see a KDE desktop. Just like I can be sure standard tools =
like=20
grep, sed or bc are there when I install a Linux distribution.

> Application selection is done at install time and your software vendor =
will
> be able to provide you with a selection of various "*core* distribution=
s".

Did you actually install SuSE recently? ;-) I bet users never ever make i=
t to=20
the dialog where you can select single packages. Most people just select=20
"KDE" in stage two which gets them kdelibs, base, multimeda, ...

Greetings,
Matthias