A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.

[Scott Wheeler]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 15:25, Klas Kalass wrote:
> taglib was imported silently into the KEG without any discussion or
> notification of the Extra Gear list. If it was discussed somewhere else
> people involved with the Extra Gear missed it.

Sorry, we kicked this around a bit on the kde-multimedia list.  I should have 
CC'ed the KEG list.  Oh, and it wasn't imported -- the repository was just 
moved from my home system after people were interested in having access to 
the repository.

> Anyways, taglib does not fullfill the requirements for the Extra Gear,
> since it is not a KDE application and not even a KPart. I suggest to move
> it to kdemultimedia.

I don't intend to tie TagLib releases with KDE releases and TagLib is already 
being used in a handful of non-KDE applications.

Again, after kdesupport was removed KEG was the closest fit.  It's 
release-quality (i.e. not kdenonbeta stuff), but not intended to be part of 
the main KDE releases (for release schedule, political and technical 
reasons).

We've said this before, but it's probably worth bringing up again -- at some 
point it would make sense to have a module for KDE related, but indirectly 
connected stuff (i.e. currently we have unsermake, taglib, valgrind, arts, 
icecream, kjs, libqt-addon, etc.).  There really hasn't been a logical place 
for that stuff so far so it's been spread all over CVS.

-Scott