On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:04, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > The major problem for most people remains: you need to install a lot of > libraries to install KDE from source -- or if you have installed the > libraries with RPMs, you need to install a lot of 'devel' packages to build Dirk already suggested this too: A simple distribution detection (as simple as checking for e.g. /etc/SuSE-release and content) and querying rpm/apt/portage about installed packages which required/recommended/optional packages are not installed and displaying the result. The lists could of course only work with much user contribution and could not be maintained by a single person. :-) Bye, Steve >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<