xcellent points!

are there reasons NOT to move it?

El jue, 11 de 09 de 2003 a las 11:21, Mikolaj Machowski escribió:
> 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.

 
>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<