I'm a bit curious - why would it be more work for devs? Obviously
splitting the packages
would take a bit of work, but with smaller and more finely grained
packages if you were
installing a package from the network and there was less to download
and install then
wouldn't install and upgrade times *
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 22:58 +0100, sam tygier wrote:
> i suspect if the KDE libs were split more finely it would mean lots more
> smaller packages, longer install times, longer upgrade times and more work
> for devs. so it would be a compromise.
Would not an extendible Desktop environment framew
On 06/09/10 17:05, Tony Atkinson wrote:
> 1) Applications, and their dependence on desktop environment libraries
>
> Currently certain application rely on specific desktop environment
> libraries to operate.
>
> As examples,
> if you install kate on stock Ubuntu 10.04, you pull in 108 packages,
> t
