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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.
From:       Chris Cheney <ccheney () cheney ! cx>
Date:       2004-02-17 9:30:06
Message-ID: 20040217093005.GJ18432 () cheney ! cx
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:14:07PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > If you want to improve things for the user so that he doesn't have to
> > install all the dependencies of kdeaddons, simply split kdeaddons into
> > sub-packages at packaging time. This is recommended in general, but even
> > more so for kdeaddons.
> 
> Unfortunately, we currently lack the resources to do that (of course that's 
> not KDE's fault). Our effort is indeed humble, hence my request to go a 
> little easier on us. Anyway, my point is made, I'll go back to lurking now.

Yes, it takes a very large amount of time to split out packages. Debian
does it but has burned out around 4 developers so far in the process.
The KDE sources should be split upstream imho it would be much easier to
deal with properly split sources than to try to split them after the
fact.

Chris

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