From kde-core-devel  Thu Feb 22 17:00:22 2007
From: "Richard Moore" <richmoore44 () gmail ! com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:00:22 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: organizing kdebase
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> > 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
> aren't user apps, they aren't workspace and they aren't dependencies for
> application software (runtime/)
>
> i'd like to see us keep runtime/ specifically as the set of dependencies that
> one could expect to see required in a package manager when installing a kde
> application. kreadconfig doesn't strike me as fitting that criterion at all
> since application software doesn't use kreadconfig (they use KConfig)

I think the issue here is more that non-KDE applications that use
these tools to integrate into KDE should be able to depend on them to
be present.

Rich.