From kde-devel  Fri May 18 14:06:35 2001
From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home () cobol2java ! com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:06:35 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Red Carpet - Gnome Installer
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Well, the short answer - NO.

Now - the long answer:

Red-carpet is "married" to gtk - and not only gtk but to the other parts 
(corba, bonobo, etc). 

You also don't have available the back-end source code which you'll need for 
stuff like - how they resolve dependencies, how they parse each RPM for 
versions (i.e. rpm -qif is not enough), and how deep the depency check goes 
etc..

Of course - they could add the kde's RPM's inside - but that will "hurt" 
their "pride" - or so, thats what I heard from their people. 

Of course - in business sence, making kde available in their database is very 
logical, specially when they start charging for it. However, unfortunately, 
Ximian and logical doesn't go together. I have emailed to someone there this 
proposition long time ago when they just started the red-carpet stuff. The 
answer was "no".

Hetz

On Friday 18 May 2001 05:19, Jeff brubaker wrote:
>   I just had a brain fart. I am in no way able to implement, but would it
> be possible for KDE to use the Red Carpet installer that is part of Ximian
> Gnome. It looks like it just uses rpm, and provides a slick interfaces to
> subscribing to channels. Could it therefore be modified to install a
> subset of gnome to get Red Carpet running, and then install the kde
> packages?
>
> -Jeff
>
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