Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...
Hello there,
On 14 Sep 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"John" == John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:
>
> John> The big package breakups have historically been related to
> John> licensing issues (either a license incompatibility that's been
> John> pointed out or a change in licensing that broke compatibility),
> John> so the bug pointing out the license issue might be seen as
> John> forcing the breakup...
>
> Actually, that is not the only reason (or, IMO, even the major
> reason). Other reasons are: I only need part of a huge package, so
> please break it out; upstream breakup of software with different
> release cycles, Part of a package has alternate software, so breaking
> out packages can allow finer grained choiuces.
>
> manoj
Right, and that's fine on computers low on resources, so I think this is
the right way to go IMHO.
Regards,
Daniel
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