On 2009-08-11, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
>> On Saturday 08 August 2009 18:22:42 David Faure wrote:
>> > kdebase/apps depends (on x11) on kdebase/workspace (for folderview);
>> > but I assume kdebase/runtime cannot depend on kdebase/workspace, since
>> > that would make every kde app depend on workspace, and we don't want that.
>> >
>> > So I think there is only one solution:
>> 
>> Wait, sorry, I think I'm missing why it can't simply be installed from 
>> kdebase/runtime. That would solve it all, right? And workspace can depend on 
>> runtime...
>
> Runtime is supposed to be "runtime dependencies", not compile-time dependencies.
>
> At least currently. But if everyone is fine with it being a compile-time dependency
> of workspace, okay. Until the day we have kdebase-runtime code that needs
> something from a workspace lib....

build-time dependencies of libraries in runtime is just wrong and
broken.

libraries in -runtime that is public libraries should be merged into
kdelibs and follow kdelibs rules.

runtime is mostly things split off kdelibs as it is not libraries.

/Sune