A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Wed Feb 11 11:50:33 GMT 2004


On Wednesday 11 February 2004 05:01, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> kdeaddons is a packagers nightmare, that's right, and that's good. Because
> it contains all the stuff which has cross-dependencies to other kde
> modules. All other main kde modules only have dependencies on kdelibs and
> maybe kdebase, but not between each other. If you remove kdeaddons and move
> the stuff in there to the other modules you would distribute the packagers
> nightmare to all modules, do you really want that?
>
> I wouldn't mind renaming kdeaddons to kdenightmare, but removing kdeaddons
> doesn't sound like a good idea.

   Not to mention the performance penalty if everyone is forced to install all 
of these plugins.

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