Re: Debian i386 freeze

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 20 Jul 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

>  Jaldhar> Of course we are not so inclined, but could Debian simply
>  Jaldhar> declare qt a "major system component" and end this argument?
>  Jaldhar> :-)
> 
> 	Not if we do not want to lie. It is a major system component
>  if and only if the majority of Linux installations come equipped with
>  Qt. Since Qt is not a part of Debian (niether is KDE), it can't be a
>  major component.

Wow! This is the most circular argument I have heard in a long time ;-)

The reason Qt can not be a major component of Debian is that it is not
DFSG compliant. It is this fact alone that creates the problems with KDE,
and no others.

Luck, 

Dwarf
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