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* Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb: |
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> On Monday 07 August 2006 21:44, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > My personal opinion is that whilst things like modular X are good for |
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> > developers, they are not so good for users - particularly gentoo users. |
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> we provide meta packages (X/kde/gnome/etc...) for the split packages |
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> so users can just emerge 1 package to get them all |
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> on one machine i like to run kde so the meta packages are a godsend ... |
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> yet on another machine, i only want k3b/kmail and nothing else so the |
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> split packages too are a godsend :) |
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Very good point. |
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What's best here is a matter of personal taste or individual |
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system requirements. |
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Gentoo's strength comes from respecting those user wishes. |
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If you stop doing that, you aren't better then all these |
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Evil-Binary-Distros (TM) ;-P |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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