organizing kdebase

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On February 24, 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> If the signal to packager is that kdebase without tools is consider enough
> for a dependency of a kde-core metapackage, then tools like kdialog,
> kread/kwriteconfig need to be in runtime.
>
> If the signal is that this is purely a matter of internal organisation and
> that packages should treat binaries in tools like binaries in runtime, e.g.
> have them both in a kdebase-bin package, then I see no problem.

i think this is up to packagers at the end of the day no matter what we do. 
this simply helps categorize things "properly". a proper kde-core metapackage 
would indeed include runtime/ and tools/ (and apps/ too, imho), but 
the -minimal dependency- from kdebase for an end-user application is 
runtime/.

jakob is quite right about the oddness of including only some scripting 
requirements and not others, but i figured i wouldn't go there ... now that 
someone has, it's quite true as far as showing why we don't shove every 
scripting support facility into runtime/ ... or maybe we do and include 
things like the kommander runtime.

speaking of kommander, i'd personally like to see it in kdebase/tools/ (or 
runtime/tools/, whatever) so that it's more dependably reliable. if we ship 
kdialog, not shipping kommander is a bit odd. we provide kdialog in part 
because of xdialog, no doubt, but kommander is ++xdialog so not having it 
there seems like we're missing an opportunity.

just imagine how much more popular kommander utilities would be if everyone 
had the runtime? =)

i'm cc'ing the kommander team as this is my invitation to them to discuss this 
possibility.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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