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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 2.2 RELEASE SCHEDULE (proposal) [NOTE: 2.2 != 2.1.1]
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-03 13:15:48
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On Saturday 03 March 2001 15:31, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> kdebase should be splitted also. If you are happy with Control Panel and 
> unhappy with Konqueror, *why* should you download Control Panle (as part of 
> one, *monolitic* kdebase) once more?
>
> Such split will exactly needs of people with slow connections, like me.
[....]

Ok, let's go for this argument again.....

It has always been up to the packagers to split the packages if
they want to. We just can NOT take care of 60 tarballs when releasing KDE
 - and confuse people with "what the hell should I download amonst all this".

By releasing the "big" packages as is, we give people choice
(between downloading the monolithic tarball and downloading more
fine-grained RPMs or other binary packages). If we released one tarball
per application, there would be no choice.

Especially with the interface given by http://ftp.kde.org (where one needs
to drag and drop every file he wants to download), it's a good thing we
don't have 60 tarballs :)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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