On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:38 David Rosenstrauch wrote: I have had the same feeling as you and take first a look at it in my arch64 test partition. If you have such a possibility too or a virtual machine with archlinux than give it a try.
* They build break KDE into small, modular packages, instead of just using the packaging supplied by upstream KDE. I use most of the apps that KDE supplies, and so don't care about the modularity.
In the first moment as i only read this on their homepage i think the same as you but now i must admit that i enjoy removing some of this little apps which i never use.-)
* They patch the upstream KDE packages in a number of ways. I strongly prefer to use packages that are as unpatched and plain vanilla from upstream as possible.
The patches been well documented and you can browse through their svn repository. I can understand you again and the only thing what i can say is that i don't have the feeling that they have useless patches. Still again this be only my minds and no commands.-) See you, Attila