the kde meta-package or BTS #211985

[Peter Nuttall <peter@nuttall.ukfsn.org>]

and #212933
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:10:58 +0100
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Hi=20

I was looking at the BTS for kde while reading some other debian-qt-kde mai=
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and I saw that the meta kde package seems to be always broken. I think this=
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is because it depends on a big chunk of the kde packages (fontconfig,=20
kde-core, kde-amusements, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdegraphics,=20
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdeutils, koffice and quanta)and if any=
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one of them is broken or is not compatible with any other then it falls ove=
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Since the normal advice on debian-kde is not to use this and the wiki=20
( http://wiki.debian.net/DebianKDE ) also says not to use this, could it be=
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changed to just show the normal install instructions though debconf or=20
attempt to just install a base kde system ( ie not kde-amusements, kdeaddon=
s,=20
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdeutils, koffice and quanta)

I'm sorry if this sounds like I am dumping on Chris Cheney or whoever takes=
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his packages but it seems from Adrian Bunk's words that people have=20
complained about the bug sitution in kde and removing the cause of bug=20
reports like this one is one way forward. =20

thanks
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