The attached patch to farbror's build machinery (already applied) should
make it generate single binary-only kde CDs along with the other weekly
CDs. These kde CDs contain only the kde-desktop task (although the CD
contents still need some tweaking), and automatically select that task.
Note that f
Chris Cheney wrote:
> "kde-core" is enough to get KDE running, it includes arts/kdelibs/kdebase,
> but it doesn't include any of the other official KDE packages. It does
> include basic apps like kate, konqueror and konsole. The "kde" package
> installs the full official KDE release, but doesn't in
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> The "gnome" metapackage is for an overblown desktop with all options.
> The official GNOME release is in the "gnome-desktop-environment"
> package. To get numbers, maybe you should look at sid as there are some
> changes with GNOME 2.6.
Ok, I'll make tasksel only require
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> or that I think should be changed.
>
> The target should be to have really the packages we and our users want on
> the first cd, for example, Joey Hess wanted the desktop task to be
> available, but this task depends on both x-window-system-core, kde and
> gnome. Testing o
Daniel Stone wrote:
> Not necessarily. When I use KDE, I largely want to use KDE apps. I
> personally think GNOME/KDE should offer their own menus, with a submenu
> in each category for "Non-{GNOME,KDE} Applications". I don't see a
> problem with this, i.e. how our KDE3 packages do it.
Well I cann
Debian should follow the lead of every other major distro and offer the
exact same menu layout throughout.
-- http://debianplanet.net/node.php?id=831
I cannot help but shudder when I read that comment in this negative
Debian review. We *led* the way: we wrote menu, we put everythin
Daniel Stone wrote:
> KDE is maintained, and works fine. kdelibs is sitting in incoming and
> AIUI needs an override to go in (even though it's not NEW). Most of its
> dependency problems are there; a kdebase package has also been prepared
> for upload to fix the other dependancy problem.
>
> Hope
Tasksel expects to find a bunch of packages in woody that arn't there.
This is not often a big deal; the missing packages will be silently
skipped. That can sorta suck if it is one of the core packages in the
task though.
Of particular note is the missing KDE metapackage, which means
that new wood
Phil Edwards wrote:
> Every time I try to get rid of useless (to me) packages like 'korganizer'
> and 'kpackage' and 'knewsticker' the Depends line triggers, and dselect
> tries to remove my entire desktop environment. :-|
No it doesn't. The kde metapackage depends on korganizer. korganizer
does
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