PROPOSAL: Core size reduction "bug day"

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Jul 25 01:21:22 UTC 2004


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Peter Backlund wrote:
>
> There is already a KDE-on-Red Hat/Fedora community project, as we all
> know. It would be ideal for that packager- and userbase to maintain KDE
> for FE.
>
> The only problem as I see it, is that the current KDE-on-Red Hat/Fedora
> project builds a version of KDE that incorporates patented technologies,
> such as mpeg playback (xine-lib, lame etc). Hopefully it's possible to
> split those parts out in separate packages and throw into Fedora Free
> World (aka livna).
>
> Rex, what do you say?

I'm all for splitting out the questionable parts, as long as they are 
available elsewhere, like rpm.livna.org

-- Rex





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