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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 2.2 RELEASE SCHEDULE (proposal) [NOTE: 2.2 != 2.1.1]
From:       Neil Stevens <multivac () fcmail ! com>
Date:       2001-03-03 19:29:51
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On Saturday 03 March 2001 05:15 am, David Faure wrote:
> 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 :)

Doesn't Debian let one install/remove individual KDE apps?

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