On Thursday 15 December 2005 03:52 pm, Lauri Watts wrote: > 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. >
I pretty much like it the way it is; however, there are times when I have problems and don't know how the pieces fit in. Is there a list of where the applications fit in. For example, if I have a problem with kmail what did I build to add it or konqueror, and etc. I imagine that I could build a find that looks at the kde pkg-lists and then grep for what I want but that is sort of going after a mouse with an elefant gun. In addition, the port name and the application name are not always the same. You get used to the application button and don't see the rest. You may also see error messages that refer to something like kio_slave and kioslave is the application name. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
