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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM-Commit <sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Matthew Clark (7db1e56806c20ab76edc88867d6bb7b30aba00d1)
  • Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:36:24 -0700

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Jeremy Blosser wrote:
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> While I get the appeal of having this and how it's in line with letting
> users have just what they want on their systems, I'm going to note that the
> flip side is that it's not generally sticking with installing upstream
> defaults. Back when I used KDE it used to really annoy me the way distros
> would break up and repackage all the stuff because it made it hard to get
> the same thing I'd have gotten from regular tarballs, and the differences
> shifted and reliability between versions, etc.
>
> I haven't used KDE in years so I'm not sure how relevant that is to the
> current topic, but it's something to keep in mind.

Perhaps do as we have with xorg and xorg-modular, where the user can use
either the upstream blobs for kdebase, kdelibs, etc. /or/ they can use
the split konqueror, kmail, etc. packages, which might make a bit of
mess with CONFLICTS and DEPENDS, but should allow for the most choice.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
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