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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Life beyond 2.0
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2000-08-26 8:39:08
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, David Faure wrote:
> > Also, didn't we talk about being able to release _apps_ independently ?
> > (In this case the version number problem doesn't really happen, since
> > the app usually has its own).
> 
> Well.. KMail has made some stable releases after 1.1.2 and it seems that 
> almost nobody has picked them up. I think it's a bit of a hassle if you have 
> a kdenetwork rpm and then get a new kmail rpm that partially replaces this 
> kdenetwork rpm. My idea would be to start with packages first.. we can always 
> move to individual applications later on.

The same has been true for KSysV, and yep, I don't think an end-user would
put up with the hassle... in fact, not even the distributors included the
updated packages (AFAIK)

Peter

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