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Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:01, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
>> >But you cannot fraction KDE modules and releases what pleases you.
>> > such files would en up in a RPM or DEB file and you cannot have a
>> > same file in a few RPM files. (We had long ago such problems with
>> > KOffice translations that were in KDE too.)
>>
>> Yes, we can. We can do whatever we want. We have a few applications in
>> the main KDE modules that produce external releases as well (Kopete
>> comes to mind).
>>
>> If the distributors can't or won't package, it's their problem.
>> Monolithic packages are a thing of the past for our main audience
>> anyways.
>
>But it would be stupid to ignore the needs of distributors, so I hope
> you don't mean your "We do whatever we want. What distributors do is
> their problem" as absolute and unfriendly as it sounds.

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