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Date:      Tue, 02 Feb 1999 07:26:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990202072606.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <xzpaeyxsojj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 01-Feb-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> I mostly agree with Jason on this point. Making KDE an easily-
> installable option, if not the default (remember, even XFree(& isn't
> installed by default), and having somebody look after KDE to make sure
> it works out of the box, may (will?) do wonders for FreeBSD's
> popularity with the "masses".

Ignoring the ports for a minute, then KDE-libs fails on some points to
make. Also the whole process is gmake'd. So out of the box will surely fail.

Those are changes that might need to be made...

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asmodai(at)wxs.nl                 when the Mind goes Binary...
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