Re: The endless and mostly fruitless GNOME applets debate [contd...]

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

?!? Can't we just make each applet its own CVS module like all the other
good little programs? Just because I happen to want the "fifteen" applet
doesn't mean I want the stripchart applet...

-Seth

On 20 Sep 2001 18:11:56 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> Den tor, 2001-09-20 kl. 17:58 skrev jacob berkman:
> > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 11:50, Chema Celorio wrote:
> > > On 20 Sep 2001 09:57:24 -0400, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 07:17, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > > Okay,
> > > > > 
> > > > > So we have always reached an impasse in the past about what to do with 
> > > > > GNOME applets ie. how to politely say to the author of an applet that 
> > > > > it's crap and has no place in the main distribution.
> > > > 
> > > > i would be for disbanding gnome-applets in its entirety, and shipping
> > > > the applets in separate packages.
> > > 
> > > I second jacob here, I am interested in particular with each applet
> > > having it's own release schedule. Also, getting the code and compiling
> > > it is easier when you only have one applet.
> > > 
> > > We can have a "umbrella" module that pulls from CVS all the applets for
> > > those who prefer to have one package.
> > 
> > no - this would be very crack-rock.  i don't know where to begin
> > debunking this, but as you didn't provide any reasons *for* it i won't
> > post any against.
> > 
> > jacob
> > -- 
> > "It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell everytime I play
> > it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious
> > to the tragedy of it's meaning, like when you're going to have your
> > dog put down and it's wagging it's tail on the way there." - Thom Yorke
> > 
> Every subdir would have to have it's own auto* setup?
> 
> Kjartan
> 
> 
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