HEADS UP: Big change to x11/kde3 (Read carefully!)

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Mon Jun 2 16:26:59 PDT 2003


On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:24:02PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> The latest update to x11/kde3 (the metaport for KDE) makes this port pull in 
> ALL modules of KDE by default. This means, if you have x11/kde3 installed and

Kris Kennaway replied:
> What is the motivation behind this?  I'm thinking in particular of
> package users, who will now have no way to get a minimal kde install
> without adding each individual package by hand.

I'm going to weigh in with kris here as this seems to violate POLA.
Perhaps a new meta-port kde3-full (or kde3-all|kde3-extended|kde-enhanced)
should be created to hold the new stuff.

mcl



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