KDE Platform Profiles

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Mon Apr 26 11:55:32 BST 2010


On 2010-04-26, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
>> On 2010-04-26, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> It is a very large job to figure out for all kde apps which parts of
>> kdelibs&runtime (executables, kio slaves, kparts, and so on) requires.
>>
>> I would suggest that it is the application maintainer who specify which
>> runtime components it needs. Maybe runtime components needed in 3
>> 'levels'.
>>
>> 1) mandatory
>> 2) optional, and normally installed by default
>> 3) optional, and not installed by default
>>
>> e.g. konqueror could specify that the khtml part, the http kioslave
>> and kbuildsycoca4 is in category 1, ftp kio slave in category 2 and
>> help kioslave in category 3.
>>
>
> I think you are using the wrong example here, ioslaves are typically
> small (although it would be nice to make them smaller yet) so you
> would gain very little in excluding kdelibs/kdebase kioslaves.

I hope you still got the point.
Yes. I could ahve used kparts, kded modules, styles, ... all sorts of
other things that is 'expected to be there', but not thing you link
against.

/Sune





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