Comentários sobre: KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora

Por: Den

Den — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:18:12 +0000

Hi! I want to upgrade my current installation of KDE to the most current version (3.5.5), but the computer it’s going on only has dialup access, and obviously it would take an EXTREMELY long time to get all of the necessary components.

I have decided to attempt to install the program manually, downloading the pieces I need onto my laptop, then transferring them over to my XP machine and copying them to the Suse 10.0 installation, which can read NTFS partitions. yes, it sounds kinda Rube Goldberg-ish, but the laptop has wireless access, but no CD/DVD burner.

Anyways, what components are required to do just a bare-bones install? Thank you)

Por: Ric Moore

Ric Moore — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:15:28 +0000

I agree, it’s pure madness to have to get one lump of anything. Pure Madness. Somebody just say “No!” It is not the “Right Thing” nor would anyone “back in the days” envision that someone would decide for another what packages to install, except when the packages are strongly coupled to each other as in a dependencies issue or to complete a specific package.

Just say “No!”

Por: Christian

Christian — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:28:06 +0000

I agree. My kmenu looks too overloaded with apps I’ll never use. Some of this apps conflicts with my preferred (like noatun trying to play AVI’s instead of Kaffeine). Subpackaging IS the way to go. Please, please do it.

BTW, are meta-packages better than Yum groups? I can uninstall groups, but I can’t uninstall meta-packages with all its related-packages. In the other hand, I’m not sure about to have dozen of groups in Yum…

I’m not a Fedora developer or packager, just a simple user, but I would like to help with sub-packaging.

(Sorry for my bad english; it’s not my native language.)