-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Scherer wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2003 13:38, Eddie wrote: > >>Do not split KDE into so many silly packages. No distro does this and >>it is ridiculous and too confusing. > > > debian does it, suse too. > > >>Some one will say that you can >>install what you want and leave out other stuff, but if you use urpmi >>and/or gurpmi it still installs all the packages as before because of >>dependencies. Please go back to the way it was, it was soooo easier >>to keep track of. Eddie Mihalow Jr-Silver Club Member > > > Splitting is good. I do not own a scanner so why should i install sane > required to use kooka, beacuse i use the old kdegraphics package ? > > i only use kmail and konqueror, why should i have 5 more useless > kdenetwork application that i will never use.
And why do I in a corporate network, with no modem attached, need to install a setuid binary (pppd) just to install kmail (which used to install kppp also, which requires ppp). Sorry, but this is a good move that has been requested for a long time, you won't find many supporters for reverting this. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/eCGarJK6UGDSBKcRAmr5AJ9jYKXMs7+grzY0SkACbkcvue2rdQCfU4gU ymhlt8u2A30psEvqWCuMLiQ= =7QYv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
