GNOME updates vs. KDE updates

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Dec 19 15:02:36 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 19:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> GNOME and KDE are not the same beasts to build. KDE is fairly self 
> contained since they are provided as relatively large set of packages
> in core while GNOME has a number of small packages and major releases 
> include additional dependencies which Fedora tends to avoid in a 
> update.

I can't say that I've noticed a Gnome update while I've been using Red
Hat or Fedora Core Linux, but I have noticed that an update to fix some
problem in KDE often means hundreds of megs of lots of KDE files then
need updating, too.  Would Gnome be the same?

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