[Kde-extra-gear] Network Management to extragear/network

[Will Stephenson]

On Wednesday 04 November 2009 22:51:16 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > I think it's a good idea. Maybe kdebase is even a better (I consider
> >  connecting to networks basic functionality), but as you note, upstream
> >  (networkmanager, connman, wicd, ...) might require intermediate
> > releases. We could probably still do those, even if we end up in kdebase,
> > of course.
> 
> yes, i don't see how being in kdebase means no interim releases.
> 
I'm against kdebase for several reasons.  I reject the trend to move 
everything that might be construed as basic functionality to kdebase - KDE 
works just fine without a NetworkManager,wicd,connman client on a desktop with 
static networking, and on several other platforms which have their own 
networkmanagement stacks.

No-one will ignore or not find KNM if it's in extragear.

And my experience was that Kopete moving to main modules at that point in its 
lifecycle killed innovation.  If we did interim releases as well as kdebase 
releases we'd always be competing with the main module releases, as well as 
trying to figure out whether 'I use knetworkmanager on 4.3.3' in a BR meant 
the copy shipped with 4.3.3 or a later interim release.

Will