On 12/15/05, Lauri Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Thanks for the response. What you've said makes good sense. Now, I guess I might as well get this over with... thanks for not splitting it up! :) James _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
