Move most of kdesupport to extragear

[Matt Rogers]

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On Nov 10, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Allen Winter wrote:

> On Saturday 10 November 2007 10:14:04 Tom Albers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a conclusion to the thread this week I want to propose to move  
>> everything   except kdewin32   to extragear/libs.
>>
>> The reason is that as far as i know all libs in there have  
>> provided tarballs which are the requirement for KDE.
>> KDE does not depend on kdesupport anymore, but on those tarballs  
>> as some projects have not been following
>> the release schedule of kdelibs.
>>
>> Without objections before next wednesday, I will start  
>> preparations to do the move the monday after that.
>> We need to inform kde-core-devel and adjust techbase articles.
>>
>
> Since these libs are not KDE-based, then they probably don't belong  
> in extragear.
> And we are so close to the release.. I'm afraid to muck too much  
> with things right now.
>
> If the packages are willing to go along with the KDE release schedule,
> then I think they should stay in kdesupport.  If they want a  
> completely
> different schedule then we need to do something else.
>
> In the case of qca, Justin makes it pretty clear that version 2.0.0  
> is what
> they expect people to use in KDE4.0.0.  So... I think the best  
> thing to do is:
>  1) remove qca from the kdesupport/CMakeLists.txt
>  2) change the build instructions to say that qca should be  
> installed from
>       distribution packages or from source code
>  3) leave the rest of kdesupport as is
>
> Comments on this?
> -Allen

This sounds like the best solution for the moment, from my point of view
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Matt


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