Bruce Dubbs wrote:
TheOldFellow wrote:
No, it's a lot of applications that together provide a windowing system.
It certainly isn't ONE application, since you can miss lots of it out
and still have functionality.
I disagree. It is a lot of *programs* and *libraries* that together
compose one *application*. You don't need all the pieces, but then you
don't need all the libraries in kdelibs or programs in kdebase either.
Sorry about this Bruce, but I think KDE is completely wrong to bundle
everything into these mega-packages. They are just a lot of programs
that are designed to work well together. That's the original UNIX
paradigm - lots of individually simple programs that can be combined to
do complicated things. KDE breaks the paradigm, and so did monolithic
X. At last we now have X distributed 'proper', so we can exploit the
UNIX paradigm again.
I would like to see the full dependency information, please, but since
I'm not contributing to the book any more, it's just a 'like'.
R.
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