[MacPorts] KDE modified

Nicolas Pavillon nicos at macports.org
Tue Mar 5 05:14:07 PST 2013


Hello, 

I wrote it a certain way to try to emphasize the necessity of performing these steps, even though it may not have been the best choice of words. I corrected it to hopefully avoid confusion. 

Cheers, 

Nicolas

On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

>> I think they convey the right air of dampening down end-users' expectations (recall two recent examples of those on macports-users).
> 
> We might might as well lament "you must run the MacPorts installer" as we're not bundled with OS X.
> 
>> I do not think those words are any reflection on the power of MacPorts, but I would
>> be happy to qualify them in some way if others think that.
> 
> I fear it's ambiguous and distracting because the definition of "out of the box" could be interpreted as any number of things. I don't feel it contributes to the "How do I setup KDE?" conversation and is commentary—which I share I wouldn't put in a "how to" wiki.
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