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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-11 11:50:33
Message-ID: 200402110650.33647.staikos () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 05:01, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> kdeaddons is a packagers nightmare, that's right, and that's good. Because
> it contains all the stuff which has cross-dependencies to other kde
> modules. All other main kde modules only have dependencies on kdelibs and
> maybe kdebase, but not between each other. If you remove kdeaddons and move
> the stuff in there to the other modules you would distribute the packagers
> nightmare to all modules, do you really want that?
>
> I wouldn't mind renaming kdeaddons to kdenightmare, but removing kdeaddons
> doesn't sound like a good idea.

   Not to mention the performance penalty if everyone is forced to install all 
of these plugins.

-- 
George Staikos
KDE Developer				http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc.		http://www.staikos.net/
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