On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:00, James Earl wrote: > Hi, > > I was just curious whether any thought has been given to splitting up > KDE so that individual applications could be installed if desired? > Something similar to what's been done with the php port perhaps? For > example, instead of have to install all of koffice, one could choose > to just install KWord. > > Something that I've always thought would be great is when you go to > install the koffice/kgraphics/knetwork/etc. port, you would be > prompted to select the applications you'd like to build within that > port.
Those applications that have difficult dependencies, or support specific hardware, or just plain make the most sense, are already split up. Some of the others get slowly split up as time goes by, or when enough people request a specific application be split out. In the long run however, it's a time sink to do and maintain, and we haven't the resources, nor really the will to do it. Nor is the demand there - in the past 5 years or so, I can count on my fingers the number of people who have actually asked for this to be done on a global scale. About an equal number of people have taken the time to seek us out and thank us for *not* doing it, because it's very easy to track KDE's dependencies, and they don't have to figure out how to upgrade 430 separate libraries in the right order to get a new version of something to run without breaking all their other software. So, we'd still have to keep those folks happy. Regards, -- Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
