RFC v2: adding a temporary, non-BC gauranteed, 'private' library

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 24 April 2009, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> And it might not work if there are also libraries which are not behind
> kdepimlibs in the dependendy chain, but between kdelibs and kdepimlibs. Or
> if even parts of kdelibs might depend on it. So such a module would only
> catch a subgroup of new libs. Hm, one should go and collect all candidates,
> current, future and previous. I guess e.g. plasmalib developers would be
> glad if they still could improve the API.

yes, if nothing else, extragear/libs/ is dependency chain neutral.

> Hm. Perhaps the best would be to rethink the policy for the modules. And
> start to allow explicitely marked parts of it to be unstable with regard to
> the next major release. No idea if packagers could solve this dependencies
> in a sane way.

that was my original proposal, and it was rejected.

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