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Re: how about making upgrades easier
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 12/Apr/2001, @07:48

>You're right, this is totally unrealistic. You can't expect to upgrade an application without upgrading all of its dependencies! This is why you can't upgrade Adobe Acrobat without buying a new copy of Windows, right?

Wrong example ;-) The right example would have been: You can't upgrade M$IE without upgrading a whole lot of the libraries which come with Windows. The only difference is that all new libraries you need are included in the installation package of the new IE whereas with KMail you also have to update kdelibs (because AFAIK some KMail related bugs have been fixed in some kio_slaves which are part of the libs) and maybe kdebase. But I think updating kdelibs could suffice.

If OTOH you use the packages provided by some distrubution you maybe have also to install the latest version of QT and some other libs this particular KDE build depends on. But for this the packager is too blame (was it really necessary to use the latest version of QT for this build?) and not the developers.

Regards,
Ingo

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