From kde-devel  Thu Sep 11 16:21:18 2003
From: Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach () wp ! pl>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:21:18 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: kppp in kdebase
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Hello,

This wish probably won't be accepted but I'd like to present reasons for 
moving kppp from kdenetwork to kdebase:

1.
In many kde-packages are applications which are net-dependent:
kdeaddons:
atlantikdesigner - atlantik is net based game
kaddressbook-plugins - kaddressbook is very tightly connected with net
kontact -the same

kdeadmin:
kwuftpd - OK, maybe this not. If you are admin of ftp site you use something 
better than ppp

kdeedu:
kstars - many, many links to search things on the net

kdegames:
atlantik - web based game

kdegraphics:
kfax - sending faxes needs connection to the net

kdemultimedia:
kscd - looks in net for fddb base

kdepim:
kmail, knode, kaddressbook

kdesdk:
today is hard to imagine working on project without connection to net
the same for kdevelop and quanta

kdeutils:
kssh

And of course Konqueror itself.

Not only I see this problem. In Mdk9.1 kppp was moved to separate package 
kdenetwork-kppp because in many cases kppp don't match with other programs 
from kdenetwork which need broadband or at least *DSL connection to the 
net.

Perhaps this is too late to make this change for 3.2 but IMO this thing to 
think about for 4.0 (or 3.3).

m.

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