Re: the kde meta-package or BTS #211985
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On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 7:33 pm, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:10:11PM +0100, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> > and #212933
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> > Hi=20
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> > I was looking at the BTS for kde while reading some other debian-qt-kde
> > mai= l=20
> > and I saw that the meta kde package seems to be always broken. I think
> > this= =20
> > 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= =20
> > one of them is broken or is not compatible with any other then it falls
> > ove= r.=20
> > 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= =20
> > 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)
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> Why not use kde-core which already only depends on the minimal packages:
> arts, kdelibs, kdebase...
my point was questioning the value of a meta-package that would be the logical
thing to install if you were wanting kde but that seemed to be both big and
broken.
However, in the past the part that keeps
> getting broken is kdebase which happens to be one of the most important
> packages. kdemultimedia is currently broken but that is due to the
> gcc-3.3 transition (#203303), once glibc is fixed properly this is
> unlikely to happen again. As I understand it glibc will be fixed
> sometime next week.
>
thanks for that data
> That said meta-kde will be restructured very soon in that unofficial KDE
> apps will no longer be mentioned by meta-kde directly, there will be a
> second meta-kde-extras source that provides metapackages for them. This
> will allow backports to use meta-kde without unsolvable dependencies.
>
this is want I was asking for. but went you talk of 'unofficial' packages are
you refering to the kde things like the games and the multimedia packages or
koffice and quanta or things like juk and arson?
> Chris
thanks
ps sorry about the email. I think the subject was too long.
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