Why would GUI admin tools be in a minimal installation? --- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:45:04PM -0700, David > Walser wrote: > > Mandrake is a GUI based, KDE centered distro. If > > you're going to run a GUI anyway, and use GUI > admin > > tools, there's absolutely nothing wrong with > having to > > have Qt. If you don't want the GUI admin tools > use > > console based ones. > > I'd argue that being KDE centric is a bad idea. I > use KDE every day. > But I don't see the need to use a larger toolkit > just to write a > configuration tool. Mandrake started out as a KDE > version of RedHat. > But that doesn't mean we need to limit ourselves to > that. Gnome is used > be a large portion of the users. There's no reason > to require them to > install something they wouldn't otherwise need. > > Finally making that change would increase the size > of the minimal > install again which I'm firmly opposed to without a > good reason. > > -- > Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://ben.reser.org > > We tend to see all wars through the lens of the > current conflict, and we > mine history for lessons convenient to the present > purpose. > - Brian Hayes >
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