kppp, and other kde apps

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

>From what I've seen when playing with kde, the level of linux dependency
is usually pretty low. What's actually needed is that someone plays with
the application, and finds out where OpenBSD's behavior fits in. In most
cases, there are two or three lines to tweak out.

In my opinion, kde is doing a very reasonable job of being
linux-independent in some areas where it's classically hard to work on
every unix flavor: system tools.

kppp falls in that category. I admit I don't use it, and I'm fairly lazy,
so I don't feel like trying it out. But some motivated person, even with
fairly low programming skills, should have no trouble figuring it out and
adding the requisite OpenBSD code.

The main issue, with kde, is SIZE.

The reason I haven't put myself as `maintainer' for the OpenBSD ports of
kde is that I'm quite aware of the sheer size of it: I don't use it all,
I don't test it thoroughly. On a typical kde release, I mostly check out
that most applications seem to start up fine, then I go back to my usual
desktop, which uses only a handful of kde applications on a regular basis:
konqueror, kuickshow, kiten, and possibly a few others...

So, I'm highly dependent on other people reporting problems before I fix
them !

(Well, currently I'm aware there is an issue with kget, which is probably
linked to thread usage, and leads to deadlocks when several concurrent
downloads are in progress...)