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On February 22, 2007, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > Apps and utils are really the same thing. =C2=A0They are applications t=
hat the
> > rest of KDE will expect to be installed.
>
> No, that's runtime.

right =3D)

> Apps is really just apps. They might be installed or not.
> Of course an app belongs in kdebase and not elsewhere if it's part of the
> basic desktop, so -users- can actually expect those apps to be installed;
> but other apps can't rely on it.

exactly.

> Not at all. kde-apps scripts might use kstart to start something a certain
> way; that's a runtime dependency for scripts that users will launch, like
> e.g. kdialog. Same for kreadconfig: it's meant for scripts to use.

and this is precisely why i put them together in another directory: they=20
aren't user apps, they aren't workspace and they aren't dependencies for=20
application software (runtime/)

i'd like to see us keep runtime/ specifically as the set of dependencies th=
at=20
one could expect to see required in a package manager when installing a kde=
=20
application. kreadconfig doesn't strike me as fitting that criterion at all=
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since application software doesn't use kreadconfig (they use KConfig)

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
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=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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