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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdesupport: let's get rid of it, now.
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2001-05-30 13:26:14
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:15:04PM +0200, Michael Brade wrote:
> > 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.

I doubt it. It's not like I want to make seperate releases of kde-kio,
kde-dcop etcetera, which is more like what the GNOMEs are doing.

> 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.

What if I already have those installed on my system? Newer, leaner and
better versions even? Perhaps a better solution would be to include them
but not use them by default (system installed libraries have preference).

If a system lib is found, we'll use it, if not, we'll prompt the user to
install it (as proposed) _or_ to add --use-included-libblah to use the one
we're including.

That way we have the good stuff of including them (ease of use) but not the
bad stuff (possibly messing up libraries already installed).

Rob
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