Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:15:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> Cc: steve@FreeBSD.ORG, lioux@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME/KDE issue with disc1 Message-ID: <20011209181534.B1921@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011209192745.3597e2dc.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>; from pnmurphy@cogeco.ca on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:27:45PM -0500 References: <20011207181333.A97777@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209012306.A96687@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209183512.1467.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20011209142050.M46667@bsd.havk.org> <20011209151048.B92399@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011209192745.3597e2dc.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Paul Murphy wrote:
> Personally I would think disc1 should take a "lets get up and running"
> attitude, and contain a "simpler" desktop. KDE and GNOME are way too
> bloated for a _basic_ install.
To follow up on this,
We however can do a little bit better about what KDE and GNOME bits we
put on the first CDROM -- I got this private email (I don't believe they
will mind if I quote part of it anonymously):
So far as KDE goes, it is not at all monolithic and is already quite
well organized into modules which are easily broken up from each
other. You will get a working, if sparse, desktop including a
browser, file manager, and editors, with just kdelibs and kdebase
(and Qt of course).
You'll get a pretty much full featured and powerful "average joe
user" desktop with the addition of say, kdemultimedia and kdenetwork.
You could have a really quite powerful office or home office desktop,
by adding back the KOffice package. I'm basing this, by the way, on
a general feeling of which packages KDE users find most useful - the
exact arrangement is what we're here to discuss.
libs + base = 18 Mb
libs + base + network + multimedia = 27 Mb
libs + base + network + multimedia + office = 36 Mb
Even this would be a very useful Desktop Environment, and it's half
the size of installing every package that's required (the script said
something around 79 Mb)
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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