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

[Bo Thorsen]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:53, David Pashley wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:51, 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. And then there's a bunch of optional
> > stuff. And arts, which I'll leave out of this discussion.
>
> FYI:
>
> Package: kmail
> Source: kdenetwork
> Version: 4:3.1.90+cvs20030111-1
> Priority: medium
> Section: kdenetwork
> Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney at debian.org>
> Depends: kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.1.90+cvs20030109),
> 	ktnef (>= 4:3.1.90+cvs20030111),
> 	libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.8),
> 	libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1),
> 	libfam0c102,
> 	libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.1-1),
> 	libjpeg62,
> 	libkdenetwork2 (>= 4:3.1.90+cvs20030111),
> 	libmimelib1 (>= 4:3.1.90+cvs20030111),
> 	libpcre3,
> 	libpng12-0,
> 	libqt3-mt (>= 2:3.1.1+cvs.20021220),
> 	libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.1-1),
> 	xlibs (>> 4.1.0),
> 	zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4),
> 	kdebase-kio-plugins
> Suggests: gnupg
> Provides: mail-reader
> Architecture: i386
> Filename: ./kdenetwork/kmail_3.1.90+cvs20030111-1_i386.deb
> Size: 1505218
> Installed-Size: 4268
> MD5sum: c3ac1d73c726c3afa436ce969d4c6c24
> Description: KDE Email client
>  Mail Client based on QT and KDE
>  .
>  Supports imap, mbox, maildir, pop3, pop3s, and OpenPGP
>
> As you can see the only think that kmail depends on from kdebase is the
> kio-plugins. Everything else is kdelibs or kdenetwork.

Yes, that's the whole point. kmail doesn't have to depend on kdebase if 
the ioslaves were placed in a sane place. libs or network will both do.

Bo.

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