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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: On-demand package installation API in kdelibs
From:       Gary Greene <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2010-07-31 2:19:28
Message-ID: 7BC1F7CB-E8B3-4FC3-B2D8-446109B4BC54 () tolharadys ! net
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On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Andras Mantia wrote:

> On Friday 30 July 2010, David Jarvie wrote:
> 
> > 
> > There has been too much emphasis in this thread on multimedia
> > packages and codecs. This idea has much wider applicability, and it
> > shouldn't be considered in such narrow terms.
> 
> Agreed. In KDE3 times Quanta had some runtime dependencies on other 
> apps, like KImageMapEditor, KFileReplace, Cervisia, Kommander. It was 
> not mandatory to have them, but they were useful for most users, so on 
> startup it checked for their existence and recommended to the users to 
> install them. With such an API the user on some distros could have 
> install them right away.
> 
> Andras
> 
> 

That or to link to the PHP or HTML references, so that if you don't want them \
installed by default, you can get them later _if you need them_.


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