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Camp KDE: Using Slackware to investigate KDE 4

Camp KDE: Using Slackware to investigate KDE 4

Posted Apr 7, 2011 13:06 UTC (Thu) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)
Parent article: Camp KDE: Using Slackware to investigate KDE 4

So, basically, for people who are trying to make new packages, not having to play by the rules of package dependencies gives you a freedom to try things quickly, and if stuff is broken, you maybe don't have to care right away.

A bit like how since Javascript isn't strongly typed, if you haven't finished refactoring all the functions you can still try out some changes.

But when the time comes to make a real package for non-packagers to use, surely nobody else wants to go through this hassle.


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