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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Building some KDE packages for RULE
From:       Helio Chissini de Castro <helio () conectiva ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-02-28 12:42:59
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Hi

You may try Conectiva packages RPM layout ( you can fins SRPMS in ftp.kde.org 
).
We almos split every application in KDE whole tree, nicluding and insane split 
in kde-i18n.
Original intention is turn easily put just necessary application in small 
environments, like embedded devices. 
Just one advice, we can handle well dependency problems thanks our based apt 
distibution. Usin rpm only turn the things hard to install.

[]'s


On Friday 28 February 2003 05:42, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings
>
> As some of you may know, I am the current coordinator of the RULE
> project
> (http://www.rule-project.org/en/ ).
>
> One of the things we aim to do is to find, package as RPM if needed,
> and list to our users the most efficient applications (in terms of CPU
> speed, RAM needs, etc..) in every area.
>
> Recently, I have heard several people saying that KDE 3.1 is much
> faster than previous releases, and have partially seen it myself. For
> this reason, and also because I'm personally curious to know a bit
> more about KDE, I'd like to try to make RPM packages for Red Hat 8.0
> of the following KDE 3.1 components and *NOTHING* else:
>
>    Qt
>    Konqueror
>    Kmail
>    KOffice
>    (maybe) Quanta
>
> These applications should be packaged to give the maximum possible
> performance sacrificing appearance to real functionality. In other
> words,
>
> I want to keep:
>
>        support via xft2/fontconfig for Asian languages
>        HTML 4.x, https, JavaScript, IMAP, SMTP/POP3, GPG...
>        image thumbnails in Konqueror when used as a file manager
>        no other applications packaged/placed on the system
>
> I want to remove
>
>        eye candy: I don't care if the result is not themeable, 16
>        colors icons are OK, if visual effects are removed, if there is
>        no sound when windows are opened, all this kind of things
>
>        things like man:// urls, which can be done almost with the same
>        functionality and output from the command line
>
>        everything else?? (maybe some configuration option?)
>
> and then, I want to see what the result looks like, and if and how
> much it is smaller/faster than the default version. I also need to
> rebuild all that stuff, starting from Qt, in some local directory, so
> it cannot mess up the default KDE/Red Hat installation, and I can
> compare the two versions on the same machine.
>
> Now the real questions: I plan to download the source RPMs from
> kde-redhat.sourceforge.net, because they have been already used on RH
> 8.0, so a lot of work has been done.
>
>      Which ones do I have to download to build the applications I
>      listed?
>
>      How should I modify the Makefiles and/or the spec files? Ideas,
> anybody? (include in this an installation side by side, from Qt upwards,
> with "standard" KDE on RH, see above)
>
> Let me repeat that right now this is just a pet project, an excuse to
> start knowing KDE structure. Point out firmly but kindly, please, any
> idiocy I might have said/assumed here.
>
> Thank you in advance for any feedback,
>
>       Marco Fioretti
>
> -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low
> memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/
>
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Helio Castro
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