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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] big packages
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:18:44
Message-Id: 200204060118.58816.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] big packages by michael
1 On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:40, michael wrote:
2 > i would like to see some packages (namely the kde ones) seperated into
3 > smaller ones so that you could install just kghostview or just kmail or
4 > some other major program (with the right kde dependencies) without say
5 > having to install a whole package like kdegraphics which contains a
6 > bunch of stuff i dont need.
7 > maybe there are some options i just need to change to do this. enlighten
8 > me.
9 >
10 This may and probably will be done at some point. But, it will require time
11 and effort and I would like to wait a week or two first to make sure all the
12 KDE3-related bugs and issues have ben ironed out before starting something
13 like this.
14
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16 Dan Armak
17 Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
18 Matan, Israel