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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: pkg-config, glib2 etc.
From:       Matthias Kretz <kretz () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-03-17 21:45:07
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On Sunday March 16 2003 19:48, Mosfet wrote:
> I don't really see any problem with requiring pkg-config. It's desktop
> independent software and wouldn't add additional dependencies or bloat to
> KDE itself. I'm not anti-anything-not-KDE ;-)
> Personally I think it's a
> good idea to look at how we can utilize the work done by other projects as
> long as the work is desktop independent software.

Very good. Now what if the changes coming to aRts (which require glib) will 
make it possible for us to reuse a lot of work done by other projects 
(hopefully pro audio tools as well as media frameworks and soundservers)?

> But just writing things in Glib and
> expecting KDE to require both toolkits

Toolkit? Is my definition of toolkit wrong? (Qt and GTK being toolkits)

> is unreasonable, and as you said, an
> absurd thing to expect. This does not only apply to the soundserver,
> either.

Please realize that aRts is a lot more than a sound server. And please don't 
start complaining that it shouldn't be because that has already been 
discussed on kde-multimedia and is being worked on.

-- 
C'ya
        Matthias
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