On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:22:15 +0200 Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Mark Rosenstand: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:52:16 +1000 > > > > James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Removing documentation is *part* of the way Arch works, slimmer > > > and more streamlined packages that arent overly customised. > > > > BTW: What are all that Arch artwork doing in the KDE packages? > > Shouldn't it be kept in some other package so the people that > > actually wants it can install it? The one thing I _love_ about Arch > > is that it in general is so unintrusive, with the KDE packages > > being the only exception. > > Hi > our mission statement is to remove docs that is not needed by the > package itself. > > About kde artwork wow the first person who thinks it's bad ;) It's just that the Arch logo looks so damned cheap with the exaggerated glass effects. Luckily I don't choose distribution by artwork, because if I were, I'd probably be scratching my head right now wondering what debconf did to break my system ;-) > The maintainers of each DE can decide on that. XFCE4 and KDE have > some artwork included, it's only some kind of arch logos and a > background, so i don't see a problem here, most distros have that, so > why we shouldn't do that. Because we shouldn't suck. Quoting myself: > > The one thing I _love_ about Arch is that it in general is so > > unintrusive It's really nice that when you have a problem with e.g. Python, then it's a Python problem and not a problem caused by some crazy packager. (Gentoo does such things alot for stupid reasons, e.g. changing the public GTK+ API in order to support smooth scrolling.) > Click on default in each dialog and the > default will appear again (at least in kde), else feel free to change > kde-common package to your needs, the PKGBUILD explains where to > change the stuff. Reviewers for example love to show some artwork in > there reviews, else they could take the screenies right ahead from > kde.org and how should this attract people? I realize that, and this certainly is not a large problem for anybody. It was just that insisting on removing documentation from packages to get "slimmer and more streamlined packages that arent overly customised" doesn't match very well with adding (sorry) ugly artwork to packages. It does add personality to the packages, whether that's a good thing is probably where we don't agree. Anyway, this "issue" is highly hypothetical; don't take it too seriously :-) -- .-. Mark Rosenstand (-.) oo| cc ) /`'\ (+45) 255 31337 3-n-( (\_;/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _(|/`-> _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
