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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving KMail, KNode, Korn and related libraries to kdepim
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-01-15 1:08:53
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On January 14, 2003 19:34, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 00:56, George Staikos wrote:
> > On January 14, 2003 18:49, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > > - Mail related slaves conceptually belongs with the mail program
> > >
> > > Really?
> > >
> > > I can read imap in konqueror as well. works just fine. Might be
> > > less comfortable than in KMail though.
> >
> >   Furthermore it should be possible for other people to write kde
> > mail clients without requiring kmail installed.
>
> And it should be possible for Gnome/Sawfish/Icewm/Blackbox/fvwm/whatever
> users to use KMail without the need to install kdebase just to get
> those two slaves. Yes, I know. The distributors should ... blablabla.
> What about people who prefer to compile from source? After all KDE
> releases source code only, remember? With having the POP3 and the IMAP
> slave in kdebase you force those people to download the huge kdebase
> tarball just for the tiny POP3 and IMAP ioslaves:
>
> kde/3.1> du -s kdebase/kioslave/pop3/ kdebase/kioslave/imap4/ kdebase/
> 72      kdebase/kioslave/pop3
> 288     kdebase/kioslave/imap4
> 52416   kdebase

  Yes I agree.  They should not be in kdebase imho.  They should either be in 
their own module, or (what I prefer) kdenetwork.  They are network related 
code after all (in the sense that we use the term "network").  They have 
nothing to do with kdelibs or kdebase.


-- 

George Staikos

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