On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 16:24 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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. I'd you suggest you ask Rex to post his download statistics. AFAIR the numbers are rather impressive. More-ever, KDE-RedHat also supports legacy RH (7.3/9) releases and RHEL 3/4. (which Extra does not) > > > 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. I can't really comments on SUSE, but: A. AFAIK Fedora only has one part-time KDE maintainer. B. Rebuilding KDE RPMs is extremely easy. qt -> arts -> kdelibs -> kdebase -> kdeaccessibility/addons/admin/artwork/games/graphics/network/multimedia/pim/utils -> kdesdk -> kdevelop, k3b, amarok. I takes me ~5 hours to get a full set of x86_64 RPMs built. I doubt that building a GNOME set is anywhere near that easy. Gilboa
