On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > > I liked the zillion packages. You see, sometimes I jsut want > > one component, > > not the entire warehouse. > > I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that > IS GOOD. > but you i would also like to see a bundled package withall the > necessary files and libs inside. > > i mean, the way i see it - kde is all about bringing ease of use to > Linux. and it does that, but just AFTER you install it.
Ease of use is one thing. Ease of installation is another. One method for installing KDE is downloading the source tarball, configure, make, make install, etc. Another way is to take a binary distibution of a system that *should be* almost the same as your own, and install the binaries from there on your own system RPMs are a convinient format for that. But there is a third "method": install redhat 7.3, SuSE 8.0 Mandrke 9 and generally any new enough distro, and you get KDE3 bundled in. (And there is the fourth method, of calling a guru to do the dirty work for you ;-) ) > > for, let's say, an advanced newbie, upgrading will be possible but > annoying, if not difficult. > people on this list (none of which is a newbie, i presume) had trouble > with it; > i've been helping a few friends of mine (advanced newbies) who had > trouble with it; > even this article on linuxplanet (which appeared on /. yesterday) > bitches about it. > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4138/1/ > > can you compare this to the ease of installing staroffice (i know, i > know it's not the same thing), Ximian or a new Mozilla release? > and of course, i'm saying this from the point of view of a dedicated KDE > follower. maybe there should be some kind of "KDE Upgrade Tool". StarOffice and Mozilla are not KDE: mozilla has far less "dependency hell" ('m not sure about OpenOffice), but there is also the fact that if you screw up with the installation of any of them, you have a non-functioning program, but with KDE, your desktop may fail to load.> Comparing to Gnome's different distributions may be interesting -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
