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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposal: package split
From:       "Dirk A. Mueller" <dmuell () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-10-03 21:22:16
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Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna@total.net> wrote:

> I personally *strongly* support Harri's idea and I was intending to
> make this discussed at KDE-TWO if I was able to go (along with
> other organizational issues).

/me too, but I couldn't get free to go there.

> I believe making choices between currently CVS-ed apps with similar
> functionality is a particularly wrong solution.

Well, not exactly choices. What's wrong with the idea to present the
user a set of standard programs for particular purposes?

[..]
> install all supplementary packages he needs from an easy to use
> interface, with connections to both local and remote filesystems.

Good idea, but then we need kppp in the kdebase package ;)

> The strongest arguments against your proposal are the kbiff/korn and
> the kedit/kwrite examples. These pairs of apps are offering generally 
> similar functions but fundamentally different functionalities.

That's right, remove them from my list. But what about the others?

-- 
Dirk A. Mueller

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