Re: Current state of KDE now?

[John Gay <johngay@eircom.net>]

On Monday 14 January 2002 00:13, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 
> > progeny:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade|grep kde
> >   kde-devel kdebase-dev
> >   balsa debian-policy kdebase-audiolibs lynx-ssl noatun-plugins vim
>
> Let 'em be removed, and just reinstall it later. I'm working to fix
> this, but it's tricky.

O.K.

Dist-upgrade is looking to download 128M of packages, so I tried install kde, 
but it's still the latest version? apt-get install kdebase is getting:

progeny:~# apt-get install kdebase
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kdebase-libs konqueror konsole libkonq-dev libkonq3
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kde-devel kdebase-dev
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 176  not upgraded.
Need to get 10.8MB of archives. After unpacking 262kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
 
which is a bit nicer to my bandwidth. This will only take 30 minutes or so.

Of course there is a lot more that I need to get, for instance:

progeny:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade|grep 4:2.2.2
Remv kdebase-dev (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst konsole (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libkonq-dev (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libkonq3 (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst konqueror (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst kdewallpapers (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst kdebase (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst kdebase-libs (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kate (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kdebase-doc (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kdict (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kit (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst klisa (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst libkdenetwork1 (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst libmimelib-dev (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libmimelib1 (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kmail (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst knewsticker (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst knode (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst korn (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kppp (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst kscreensaver (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst ksirc (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)
Inst ktalkd (4:2.2.2-13 Debian:unstable)

but I know of no cleaner way to install these. I thought the whole reason for 
meta-packages like kde was to allow a simple way to update a large group of 
related packages. Has the kde meta-package been overlooked or have I missed 
the point completely?

Cheers,

	John Gay