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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE Myths (Update)
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-11-28 23:26:28
Message-ID: 200511282126.29065.thiago () kde ! org
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Mihnea Capraru wrote:
>What I mean is that people are weary of the MS habit of tieing apps to
> other products. Stuff like "can't buy X (which you need) unless you
> take Y with it".

Ok.

>Some people I've either personally met or seen posting to the Internet
> have the feeling that the KDE releases are somehow flooding them with
> apps, which they need to install.

Ok, the myth is:
  KDE forces me to install a lot of applications that I don't use

That I can agree and that we can work on. But remember that this is a 
sensitive issue because we shift the burden of splitting the KDE packages 
to the distributors and not all of them do it (e.g., FreeBSD ports).

>But the fact is that good distros (like Debian or SuSE) provide
> fine-grained packages, such as Kate, juK etc.

Do not write "good" in the page in that context, please.

>If I understood this correctly, the KDE source releases come in big
> bundles in order to reduce packaging/release management overhead, they
> don't mean to say that their contents depend upon each other. (e.g. I
> don't need KEdit in order to have Kate)

There's some strategic value in bundling related things together.

If we released a myriad of small packages, not only would it be a heavy 
burden to build and install and to track changes, it wouldn't give some 
small applications the visibility they have now.

One example was Kommander: it "came along" with Quanta, but now it's 
grown. It could only do that because it got exposure and grew beyond its 
original goals.

Another example is the kdeutils package: kregexp, kcharselect, khexedit, 
kgpg.

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3. Ac seo woruld wearð geborod, swá se Scieppend cwæð "Gewurde Unix" and 
wundor fremede and him "Unix" genemned, þæt is se rihtendgesamnung.

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