[RULE] About standalone KDE apps, was:kmail and kppp

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 23:16:52 at 11:16:52PM -0500, Kweskin Richard (rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr) wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> For the first? time Redhat have packaged kmail and kppp separately on their 
> own. I used to look for kdenetwork to get these.
> 

This is good news, I had not realized it yet. There are a lot of
programs like these (the Konqueror browser comes to mind) that would
probably be much lighter on resources in and of themselves. The
problem (and one of the reasons why it doesn't really matter what the
default distro for RULE is) is the fact that they almost always come
in much heavier bundles, with things not needed, and/or compiled with
every possible option known to man.

RULE-wise, I see two goals from this point of view (but not the time
yet to them myself, :-( ):

1) Learn/discover how one compile these apps from source with the bare
minimum of libraries/components/fundamental options (and document them
for the users of all distros, of course): as far as I remember, Vadim
Plessky is the one list member with the more expertise on this.

2) Package the result as RPM for use in our ISOs, or just as
downloadable, standalone packages from the web site.

Last but not least: I got this a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to
forward it:

#################################################################
 Hello,

 there has been set up a new list called kde-optimize at kde.org,
dedicated to 
working on optimizing KDE (the subscribe address is the usual 
kde-optimize-request at kde.org).

 I'd like to stress the word 'working'. This mailing list is not for
people 
who would only complain (or other similar things that wouldn't result
in 
something useful). In other words, this list is for developers, who
are 
willing to actively work on optimizing KDE, or who have the knowledge
to help 
others with doing so (I guess that means you can also try your luck if
you 
need to advice with optimizing your app)
######################################################################

	Ciao 
                     Marco Fioretti
-- 
Marco Fioretti                 m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it
Red Hat for low memory         http://www.rule-project.org/en/

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo
Picasso 


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