The kdebase purpose (Was: Re: Moving KMail, KNode, Korn and related libraries to kdepim)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday January 14, 2003 11:51, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 January 2003 22:23, David Pashley wrote:
> > ...
> > I was under the (false?) impression that KDE required kdelibs *and*
> > kdebase. with that in mind, I don't see a reason to move them.
>
> KDE is kdelibs and kdebase.

That doesn't seem to be the case.  Technical details like the internal KDE 
dependency graph are irrelevant to the definition of what KDE is.  KDE is 
what KDE developers decide it is.  And KDE 3 is much larger than kdelibs + 
kdebase.   According to http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.html, KDE's processes 
have resulted in the decision that KDE 3.1 will contain many packages:

arts
kde-i18n
kdeaddons
kdeadmin
kdeartwork
kdebase
kdebindings
kdeedu
kdegames
kdegraphics
kdelibs
kdemultimedia
kdenetwork
kdepim
kdesdk
kdetoys
kdeutils
quanta

And I see no signs or reasons that Stephan Kulow will reduce this list for 
KDE 3.2.  So any decision about KDE 3.2 packages must assume that KDE is 
this large until contrary decisions are made.

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