From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Dec 9 18:23:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B67537B419; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 9E12E9B08; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:21:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:21:16 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: David O'Brien Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org Subject: Re: GNOME/KDE issue with disc1 Message-ID: <20011209212116.C23826@squall.waterspout.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , ports@FreeBSD.org, kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org 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> <20011209181534.B1921@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011209181534.B1921@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:15:34PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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): It was not a private email, it was To: kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org (see http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd/ for more info) and Cc:'d to you. Message here: http://lists.csociety.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2001-December/000319.html > 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) The above is certainly correct. I guess it depends on how useful a KDE people would want from disc1. I *will* object to removing any more than libs+base. Of course, if sysinstall is fixed to work with more than one CD as far as deps go, it's all moot. But I'm not volunteering to fix sysinstall -- are you? Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message