Submitted 13-May-00 by Guy T. Rice:
| On Sat, 13 May 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
| > I'm all for choices, but providing 55MB worth of themes for one desktop
| > manager seems to be a bit overboard.  Also, I fail to see the logic in 
| > splitting the package when one component is 10 megs and the other is 45.
| > That extra package is a monster :p
| 
| That's why we now have 2 CD's.  :)  And seeing as how KDE is the reason
| for Mandrake's existence (remember, Mandrake _used_ to be nothing more
| than RedHat 5.x with KDE added), I think there's a historical precedent
| for making special allowances for KDE users...

Okay, accepting that at face value, a single package still shouldn't be 
45 MB.  Even the kernel sources top out at fifteen.  I don't know, it just
strikes me as fluff when there is good software in contribs that could be
added to fill the second disc.

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