From kde-core-devel  Wed Apr 19 14:44:12 2006
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:44:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: New module "kdecore"
Message-Id: <200604191644.13057.nicolasg () snafu ! de>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=114545787111130

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:47, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> >> > - apps: other apps, needed by users but not by other apps
> >>
> >> How about moving these out of kdebase?
> >
> >And where? I don't see the point; as I said it's only confusion.
>
> I don't know. Which applications are these?
>
> >> Also, where is Konqueror? I would consider it part of Workspace,
> >> because no environment is full without a file manager. On the other
> >> hand, even if I were in TWM, I'd like to use Konqueror...
> >
> >Konqueror is -definitely- not part of workspace. Workspace == "X11
> > only". The logic is not "kde is not full without xyz"; that's the logic
> > for kdebase itself, and that's why I don't think we should "move those
> > apps out of kdebase".
>
> Makes sense.
>
> Let me see if I understood correctly:
>
> 1) A complete KDE environment should run and be usable with just kdelibs +
> kdebase, as it is right now.

But kdebase allows GPL, while kdelibs does not.

>
> 2) Running KDE applications outside KDE requires kdelibs +
> kdebase-coreapps
>
> 3) Compiling KDE applications requires kdelibs only
(...)

Have a nice day!