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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Installer...
From:       david mattatall <davidsmind () linuxbasics ! com>
Date:       2002-04-13 1:53:36
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On April 12, 2002 05:35 pm, Roberto Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's a great coincidence that you sent this message now. I have been
> planing a installer last night and early this morning before seeing your
> message :-)
>
> I would very much like to work with you on this as I really think an
> installer would be a great addition since I receive a LOT of emails daily
> with people asking how to install KDE.
>
> There are two main proposals for the installer:
>
> (1) Using Apt
> ------------
>
> Apt has the great advantage of being able to be used for both RPM- and
> DEP-based distros. It is one single library that handles both formats,
> although not simultaneously, so we'd have to have two versions of the
> installed, one for RPM and one for DEP. That's sad but inevitable, unless
> we actually have a little installed stup that actually detects what
> installed the user needs and downloads the real installed and goes from
> there. Hey, that's an idea... :-)
>
> Also, I know Apt's API and I've played with it already.
>
> (2) Not using Apt at all
> -----------------------
>
> This is slightly more complicated for packagers, I think. They would have
> to create two files with their KDE distribution containing lists of what
> the packages provide and what they require.
>
> Our installer would download those files and compare what we require with
> what the user's system provides and what our packages provided so that we
> know we have everything the user needs. If we don't, all we can do is
> warning the user that he's got some dependencies to meet. All this can be
> done using rpm itself. I don't know anything about dpkg.
>
>
> Personally I like (1) because I know it works and I already did something
> similar. Number (2) seems to be a little bit more complicated and hacking.
>
> The installer might be done in Qt? It would have to be statically linked so
> it might be a little too big, but not so much if you consider how big the
> whole KDE distribution is.
>
> Comments?


I think using debs would be a great Idea, and It would give us Debian users a 
official packaged version of KDE 3. It would also relive the fears of newbies 
who have heard of people fscking up there systems with the rpm -Uvh --nodeps 
--force method.
 
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