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From: | Brian Brazil |
Subject: | Re: [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense |
Date: | Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:07:51 +0000 |
On 3/25/07, Kevin M. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. What's wrong with this? kPovModeler is a frontend to PovRay, which is non-Free software. Without PovRay, kPovModeler does absolutely nothing functional. 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. 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. Both the .dsc and the diff.gz file can be found here: 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
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