Re: [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense

[Brian Brazil]

On 3/25/07, Kevin M. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Today while working on one of my Debian systems, I realized that Debian
> ships a program called kPovModeler, which is Free Software. This program
> is distributed as a part of the K Desktop Environment, in the
> kdegraphics package. So, installing the KDE meta package will pull this
> piece of software in too.
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> What's wrong with this?
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> kPovModeler is a frontend to PovRay, which is non-Free software. Without
> PovRay, kPovModeler does absolutely nothing functional.
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> I'm concerned that by tying this package into a commonly installed
> metapackage (kde installs kdegraphics, which installs kPovModeler) we
> silently support non-Free software.
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> On a more practical side, supporting this package is a waste of time,
> disk space and potential manpower when it does nothing without the
> non-Free backend.

It seems suitable for generating and viewing wireframes to me. It
isn't picking up my OpenGL support for some reason so I can't verify.
Currently the time, space and manpower it requires is virtually
nothing.

Have you looked for a free backend for it?

> I've edited the kdegraphics .deb package in the repos as of about 5 AM
> GMT and used that to produce the .diff.gz and dsc file that should
> replace the ones currently there.
>
> The kdegraphics.orig.tar.gz was not edited directly, and should not need
> to be touched at all.
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> Both the .dsc and the diff.gz file can be found here:
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> http://www.foreverdean.info/kevin/patches/kdegraphics/

Any changes hould be in the form of a diff to Builder, you should
already have most of the work done towards that.
Anything else is unmaintainable.

Brian