-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 G�tz Waschk wrote: | Am Dienstag, 10. September 2002, 09:51:17 Uhr MET, schrieb Ben Reser: | |>On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:31:19AM +0000, Jose wrote: |> |>>I noticed on a fresh install that one of my students was trying to open |>>up a zip package from within Kde, but it wouldn't open up because ark |>>complained that zip was not installed. Shouldn't ark's depend on zip |>>and unzip? |> |>No because ark will still work for other formats without zip/unzip. |>zip/unzip is one of those it's nice to have packages but not required. | | Come on, the kde packages depend on so many other not really needed | stuff, these two additional packages won't make a difference.
Zip and Unzip really aren't used that much in the linux world from my experience (I keep them installed though of course along with almost everything else from the CDs on my development/testing machines). You could always extend that train of thinking and require all plugins for xmms, etc. The modularity, however is part of what makes a Linux machine so powerful. You could for example plug in your own third party archive tool that handles zips with added features without dealing with all the rpm dependencies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2ADHEACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1PX9ACeN1AHl+Weg7X9hr2Bqxkq59Uw f5YAn3828TptWjMfu5pafmEchHVGhUTY =fJY8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
