kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 16:02 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 22:15 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> [large snip]
> > >  The same
> > > argument can be made against everything in Extras.
> > Not quite. It's the size of KDE and its complexity is what makes the
> > difference - I strongly doubt a couple of "ambitious young man" will
> > be
> > able to handle it. 
> 
> You -are- aware that Rex is handling the KDE Packaging Project (AKA
> KDE-RedHat project) almost by himself, right?
Yes. But it make a HUGE difference whether a set of packages is part of
an arbitrary add-on repo or the being used by a significant amount of
users on a daily basis.

> Unlike GNOME (with its 15,000 cross dependencies), KDE is -fairly-
> easy to build and maintain.
Urban legend. Not even SuSE with several full-time employees only
working on KDE is able to do this.

Ralf