Fwd: KDE/kdebase/libkonq

[Thiago Macieira]

David Faure wrote:
>On Thursday 02 March 2006 20:13, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> What I meant was that the author of an application outside kdelibs
>> should remember to add QtCore, kdecore, kdeui, etc. to his own
>> dependency list.
>
>And I disagree; this only makes it more difficult for people.

Yes, of course! My comment should be taken into the "in the pedantic 
world" context :-)

>If I write a kde app I should only have to specify the top of the
> dependency chain (e.g. $(LIB_KIO) if I use kio, $(LIB_KPARTS) if I use
> kparts), without having to care that this in turn needs kdecore and
> kdeui (ok I could guess those), but do I also need to remember that it
> includes e.g. kdefx???

Right. You should not have to remember what the library you're using 
requires.

But you should have to remember what libraries you're using.

>You can be sure that people will keep forgetting one or the other of the
>various libs that they need. OTOH with the planned kdelibs
> reorganization we'll certainly have less libs than before so the
> problem will be somewhat reduced.

Less?

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