From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1El6yJ-0006zA-0M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:49:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBAFlNmf003568; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:47:23 GMT Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBAFelIu022395 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:40:48 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1El6q7-0005Ke-My for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:40:47 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CAF1400329 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:40:44 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:44:17 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? Message-ID: <20051210154417.7889965a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <439AB4CB.6070508@planet.nl> References: <20051209222039.25958.qmail@web54611.mail.yahoo.com> <200512092335.43311@frappe.xs4all.nl> <439AB4CB.6070508@planet.nl> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.8; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_8LMiji1.CZJ0DaMmiuKeg68; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 36e2d281-9089-47f3-952a-572b01db26c1 X-Archives-Hash: 23f82d0af294e97c1aa931f7ba82a199 --Sig_8LMiji1.CZJ0DaMmiuKeg68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:58:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > There is obviously some overriding benefit to modularity for the KDE > team (as for the X.org team, which is also migrating to a modular format > for their packge), and this benefit migrates down to Gentoo as a > source-based distro (as opposed to binary based distros like Mandriva or > FC, which seem much less likely to find an advantage from modular > packages). Debian and Mandrake were using fine-grained packages for KDE years ago. Gentoo is one of the last distros to split KDE, presumably because it is that much more involved with a source-based system. --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows 98, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself. --Sig_8LMiji1.CZJ0DaMmiuKeg68 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDmvfRum4al0N1GQMRAi8hAJ4kjS2pWxKn5xnImGGMf/8lNPzkQwCcD+pX RkzXnhOIqwKTaSl+jLfeMm4= =7vT9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_8LMiji1.CZJ0DaMmiuKeg68-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list