On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:56:33PM +0100, Christoph Feck wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:16:32 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > I disagree, wallpapers *are* part of the history, if i want to go abck to > > 4.5 and install kdebase i want to get what we had, not something less > > because that new shiny tool we have is not able to cope with wallpapers. > that won't work anyway, as we are rewriting history due to the splitup.
> I don't know how much work that is, but if possible, only the default > wallpaper should always be in the repository (including those of kdm, > ksplash, > or whereever they appear). > that makes no sense conceptually. once something is in the repo, it will stay there forever. and the default wallpaper changes at least once per release. so by doing a history cut now, you'd only postpone the problem, and create a royal mess on the way. shallow clones (whenever they may come) should fix the history bloat problem for local clones, so there isn't a really strong reason long-term to externalize the multimedia data. i'm not against such a "carve out" (i'm even slightly pro, especially short-term), but it would have to be done properly.