I understand the need to reserve that space for the commercial apps. But, my concern is that there are now only three options for mail in Mandrake, KMail, Evolution and Mozilla (unless I'm mistaken). If you are running on a resource starved machine and are using a window manager other than KDE or Gnome, you are left with the choice of Mozilla or being forced to install KDE or Gnome just to get a mail program.
My other concern is that Mandrake is known for being a desktop distribution, but it doesn't seem very user friendly if you are upgrading from a previous version of Mandrake to 9.0 and all of a sudden you don't have your mail program anymore (assuming you were using Sylpheed). I know that you could go out to contrib and download it, but the question is "Why should you have to?" Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Mandrake and I think 9.0 is about to be the best version yet. It just caught me by suprise that this package was removed from the distribution. Joe On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:20:47 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Braddock wrote on Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at > 11:52:11AM -0700 : > > I noticed that Sylpheed is not on the three > CDs (or at least not listed in > > rpmdrake). I saw that it is available in > contribs. What was the rational for > > removing it (especially since CD3 appears to > have extra space)? > > That extra space is reserved for items that > will exist in the final > version. I don't have any details on what > those items will be comprised > of, I'm just repeating information that > appeared in here a few days ago. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > MandrakeSoft USA > http://www.mandrakesoft.com > Easy things should be easy, and hard things > should be possible. > > --Larry Wall > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk > Kernel 2.4.19-9mdk >
