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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kpovmodeler in kdegraphics?
From:       Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <mmh () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-11-10 20:48:03
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Andreas Zehender wrote:
 
> On Sunday 10 November 2002 15:41, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
>> I kind of wonder why a very specialized application has found it's way
>> into kdegraphics. How many percent of KDE users will use povray
>> modelling?
 
> Do you really think this should be criterion whether apps are included in
> the base packages or not? I think enough users would use such an
> application if the graphics package would contain it.

I don't think anyone minds applications that are used by few people, as long
as they are not very large. kpovmodeller is a lot larger than any other app
in kdegraphics.

> Yes, I know it is a huge application, but as powerfull as huge.

I would likt to try it, but current CVS fails to compile at the linking
stage, because it can't find libGL.la on my system...
 
>> Wouldn't it be better to move it to kdeextragear or create a new package
>> kde3dmodelling?
> 
> I have nothing against a new package if you think the kdegraphics package
> is too big. As long as it gets the same support as inside kdegraphics and
> it is still released with kde.

Sure. Just split kdegraphics in two part, one containing smallish apps like
the one existing before. And then add a kpovmodeller package. It even gets
more attention this way!

> But I still think it is a great enrichment for the kdegraphics package.

I did not want to critisize the application. I just think that downloading
(and for most people compiling) kdepovmodeller to get kghostview and kdvi
is overkill.

-- 
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann mmh@gmx.net wiss. Mitarbeiter, IMGB
        La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux
        pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler
        du pain. 
        (ANATOLE FRANCE)
 


 
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