Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

[Ben Maurer <bmaurer andrew cmu edu>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Andrew Cowie wrote:
>
> > Which, to be honest, I feel makes this whole discussion a bit pointless.
> >
> > I realize that GNOME release engineering is holy ground, but don't you
> > see? Everyone already ships Beagle. Which means they ship Mono. Which
> > means it's a part of the GNOME desktop. fait accompli.
>
> Not really. In fact, blessing an app in the desktop has the immediate
> consequency that other apps can depend on it in a non-conditional way.
> For instance, a few distros already ship beagle by default, but most
> only ship it. And I just can't run beagle on my box, it eats up too much
> memory. So if it was proposed for inclusion, including it would mean
> that some Gnome apps would depend on it more or less inconditionally and
> I couldn't run these apps anymore.
>
> That's the kind of problem we want to avoid here.

This is completely besides the point. Nobody is proposing that beagle be 
made a requirement for GNOME. I agree, this would cause a problem for many 
low memory users.

Please limit this discussion to things that are being suggested.

-- Ben