From kde-core-devel Fri Feb 23 20:08:19 2007 From: David Faure Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:08:19 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: organizing kdebase Message-Id: <200702232108.19593.faure () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=117226131607106 On Friday 23 February 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On February 23, 2007, you wrote: > > That's the point. If (or given that) we provide enough tools, you can make > > useful addons in shell scripts using kdialog, kread/writeconfig, etc. > > Those scripts have runtime requirements: kdebase/runtime. > > i fear we are missing the salient point, and that's probably my fault for not > stating it simply and clearly: > > 1) a kde environment does not function properly without runtime/ > 2) a kde environment functions fine without tools/ I didn't miss that point. But the default kde working isn't enough. A kde environment where you can download and install something which will fail with ksometool:2: command not found: kdialog does not "function" properly IMHO. However this thread is starting to look like bikeshedding so I'll stop there and let you do whichever you see fit ;) I just think this line is being drawn too thin and will keep coming back to bite us. The fact that startkde used kreadconfig until not so long ago proves that: it would have meant moving kreadconfig between runtime and tools whenever we change our mind about using it in startkde or not... -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).