move ldap ioslave into kdepim(libs)

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Wed Oct 10 00:10:44 BST 2007


On Tuesday 09 October 2007 4:25:52 pm Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > > The question is irrelevant, as libraries are usually not packaged in the
> > > same package like kioslaves are.
> > However I still wonder how many kde apps use the
> > imap4/ldap/mbox/nntp/pop3/sieve/smtp kioslaves, other than those in kdepim.
> 
> then they should be in kdepim, if there is nothing else depending on it. right 
> now we have however several extragear modules that depend on kdepim, because 
> they can't get runtime/buildtime dependencies straight. 
> 
> I've checked, and kdebase/runtime still requires kdepimlibs, because the kfax 
> stuff requires libkabc. 
> 
> So afterall, the move of the kioslaves to kdepimlibs did not solve anything 
> and only violated the runtime/buildtime separation we've been trying to 
> establish for years now. So we're back in the old and dark middle ages. 
> 
> 
Dirk tried valiantly to explain why moving these kioslaves into kdepimlibs
makes things worse.. I still don't quite understand... seems to be mostly
an issue for distro packagers.

Anyhow... I will move kdepimlibs/kioslave back to kdebase/runtime in the
next few days unless there are objections.

Regards,
Allen




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