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#1 2008-11-19 22:31:16

kozer
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Registered: 2008-04-14
Posts: 20

kde from extra or kdemod?

I dont care about modularity...I just want to ask which is better,cause kdemod has some backports,etc....What do you think?

Last edited by kozer (2008-11-19 22:31:40)

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#2 2008-11-19 23:31:57

Ranguvar
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Registered: 2008-08-12
Posts: 2,545

Re: kde from extra or kdemod?

Trust me, you do care about modularity. Unless you're installing all of KDE. Without modularity, you're forced to get all or nothing of any group of KDE packages. All games or no games? All network apps or none of them? etc.

But anyways, KDEmod tends to get better support from Arch and is noticeably (on boot) faster, at least for me. I use Qtmod even though I don't use KDE now, I use Awesome. And of course, the few KDE apps I have now need less dependencies thanks to modularity.

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#3 2008-11-20 00:21:28

shazeal
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From: New Zealand
Registered: 2007-06-05
Posts: 341

Re: kde from extra or kdemod?

I had a play with KDE4 both mod and stock arch installs. Neither booted any faster than the other. KDE mod had the better default install IMO, all the junk supplied in the stock arch one is a bit overwhelming. Also KDE mod has binary packages of Amarok-svn and K3B svn if your into eithe of those.

Otherwise the real differences were minimal, both installed and ran, neither had any obviously stupid defaults. In anycase I tried out KDE4.2 (beta stuff) and it still was not anywhere near a full desktop solution, its just too pieced together for my liking at the moment. I definately prefer it to gnome now though, and will probably give it another try in a year or so when its all stabilized (plenty of crashes in both kdemod/stock on the 4.1.3 build, and the beta is even worse of course).

If I had to recommend either I would say KDEmod.

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#4 2008-11-27 18:29:57

Diaz
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From: Portugal
Registered: 2008-04-16
Posts: 366

Re: kde from extra or kdemod?

where did you get the latest 4.2 beta? i was willing to try it...

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