On 19 December 2011 14:13, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
> Calvin Morrison wrote:
>
>> Essentially Konqueror doesn't need the rest of tdebase, and most of what
>> it
>> depends on is from tdelibs. What it does depend on can be packaged in
>> with
>> it.
>>
>> Konqueror on my machine pulls in 72 different libraries, as a
>> comparison,
>> firefox pulls in at 57 and mplayer at 142
>>
>> I think it might be worth considering,
>
> You are aware that you can run Konqueror on a non-Trinity window
> manager, right?  What does all this work to repackage do?  Save a little
> disk space and download bandwidth.  How much?  Is it worth it?  Compared
> to most YouTube views, the disk space and BW for installing all the base
> commands are negligible.
>
> To me, the cost/benefit is too low, but someone might want to do it.
>

Exactly.  Cost/benefit WAY too low for consideration by the general TDE
project.  If a distribution wants to do this "on the side" they are free
to do so. ;-)

 Tim

Okay,

Me and Pawel "L0ner" have been discussing the modularization of trinity applications that belong in kdebase/kdegrahpics/kdenetwork etc. They are almost all independent applications, and could be seperated as such.

Just trying to throw something fresh on the table,
Calvin Morrison