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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdesupport: let's get rid of it, now.
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2001-05-30 13:28:33
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On Wednesday 30 May 2001 15:15, Michael Brade wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2001 15:04, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:52:00PM +0200, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > hell no!
> > > not yet another lib to depend on
> >
> > We already depend on it. But it's nonsense to ship all our dependencies.
> > What's wrong with simply saying "hey, you need this" to the user who runs
> > ./configure?
>
> Well, we would end up with the same dependency crap GNOME has. You'd like
> to just install kdelibs and now you find you'll need to download 5 other
> packages with their own dependencies. That's _really_ frustrating. I know
> we can't ship every lib with KDE but I think it's ok to have the small ones
> included.

But lets be consistent, we don't ship libxml2 but depend on it. So either 
import a copy of libxml2 to kdesupport or get rid of kdesupport.

IMHO we should get rid of kdesupport, we don't depend on _that_ many 
libraries.

Matthias

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