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List:       kde-optimize
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] libkdeinit symbol pruning
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-07-20 9:13:26
Message-ID: 200407201113.26990.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 19 July 2004 13:04, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2004 02:05, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 19 July 2004 01:06, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > > It will break apps that link to the libkdeinit_*.so's or dlopen them and
> > > try to resolve symbols other than kdemain... but I guess if any app does
> > > that, then it's already broken by violating the kde abi, no?!
> >
> > Thinking about it, I'm not sure anyone links to a kdeinit module.
> > What people do, which is unportable, is to link to a kparts part, but
> > that's unrelated.
> 
> What if an application defines a plugin API that plugins can call? (Or worse,
> if the application doesn't define an API and plugins just call stuff all over
> the place)

You are right, this happens: with kded :/
kded modules find symbols in the kded binary itself (so now that I have the kdeinit
symbol pruning patch applied, kwallet and kpasswdserver don't load anymore).
This always seemed dirty to me - shouldn't we have a libkded instead?

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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