On Thursday 02 November 2006 8:10 pm, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 10:15 -0400, Alan Mizrahi wrote:
- I have added shortcuts for searching in crux ports and youtube videos on konqueror
I hope I'm not alone in being a bit disappointed about this.
You're not alone.
One of the things that attracts me about CRUX is the fact that packages are mostly vanilla. I'd hate to see the KDE packages follow a different path as there's plenty of distros who push their ugly artwork and useless bookmarks down your throat.
Signing off under each word. Also...
I'll remove the custom search shortcuts.
Alan, is sudo, gpg, libidn, openldap, imlib, freeglut, gamin really necessary for that version of kdelibs? The same question about samba, ghostscript, cdparanoia, lame for the kdebase.
I'm using kde 3.5.3 without that bloat.
I agree, but I didn't want to be so aggressive removing dependencies because it seemed like everybody was fine with them before I inherited the KDE responsibility. In fact, I removed tetex (HUGE download and build time) and esound from the dependency list because of this, but I'll go a bit further before making this release. Its a matter of balance: for some people cups and openldap are a real necessity and for others its bloat. Some people might think that if you are already using KDE you already like bloated software :) I've always thought we should have some kind of polls on the website to help the packagers decide this kind of things, maybe even a casual poll-of-the-week could help.
May it moved to "Nice to have:" ?
Yes, I'll move some dependencies to "Nice to have", but I think this header is only human-parseable. Maybe prt-get should accept a --full parameter to install also the "Nice to have" dependencies.
Beside these issues, thanks for your work! Hope kde will return to the contrib soon.
Thanks. -- Alan Mizrahi