-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Returning to the real issue which has been drowned in rants ...
Quel Qun wrote: > Packaging exists to allow modularity. There is no modularity whatsoever with > current Mandrake's packaging of KDE. Modularity may not be the *most* important citerion here. > It is no news, kdelibs requiring galaxy-kde or the mutual requirement between > kdelibs and kdelibs-common were already against common sense. As of today, > kdelibs requires kdebase (kdelibs requires galaxy-kde, which in turn requires > kwin.so, part of kdebase). Of course, kdebase requires 6 other rpm to be > installed, and I don't know how deep this goes. Ok, Mandrake has now made Galaxy the default style, and lets assume that they want to ensure that users get a consistent desktop in terms of widgets, so gtk should require galaxy-gtk, metacity should require galaxy-metacity, kdelibs should require galaxy-kde and kdebase should require galaxy-kde-kwin (or something). > > This means that if I wish to run a kde application under any other WM, I still > need to install a full blown KDE environment. So long modularity, it was nice > to see you So, if you want your modularity back in a way that is acceptable to Mandrakesoft (who are the people who need to be satisfied, dont bash on Laurent and Fred for this ...), someone needs to split galaxy up. I am quite sure Laurent did not just arbitrarily decide on his own that KDE (kdelibs) should default to Galaxy and thus require kdebase, so cut him some slack, and if it is so important to you, provide a patch for the galaxy spec. Since I use KDE and GNOME, it is not important to me, and I have other stuff to do ... Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 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 v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Wz9ZrJK6UGDSBKcRAjUeAKCRIhKfMcIxXXhibqEbDyf+yPlG+QCffAoH oi1fy9BkXSvlso98A/dpCUg= =17j6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
