A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:00, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> Is 0.35 M less for each of the "base" modules (of course kdepim would actually 
> grow much less than kdemultimedia in reality, but it's still okay for 
> illustration) really worth an addons package?

You're missing the main point.
That plugin is there because it has compile-time dependencies on both kdenetwork
and kdepim.
If we allow inter-main-modules dependencies, it's going to be hell to build things.

If you want to improve things for the user so that he doesn't have to install
all the dependencies of kdeaddons, simply split kdeaddons into sub-packages
at packaging time. This is recommended in general, but even more so for
kdeaddons.

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