A little review of kdecore & kdeui

[Thiago Macieira]

Simon Hausmann wrote:
>It may just require a bit of grouping to avoid dragging in for example
> QtSql when linking against a static library just to pull in a little
> helper class that only requires QtCore. So classes would have to be
> grouped a little bit by their underlying dependencies. But I'm not sure
> if we would run into this problem a lot anyway.

There are 3 ways to solve the dependency problem, as far as I see it:
1) keep it in a separate file -- this is the libtool solution
2) define the exact set of libraries that it requires, to be chosen from 
the libraries that all KDE apps link to (namely, some of these: QtCore, 
QtGui, kdecore, kdeui, kio)
3) not define anything at all and let the developer figure out what the 
dependencies are -- this is the Windows style

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