On Thursday 12 of June 2014 18:24:38 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > if we modularize the repos more, we need to go full monty and modularize
> > > *everything*.
> > > i really wouldn't want to do that with the current build system.
> >
> > 
> >
> > I guess it would be a nice long term goal.
> 
> I'm sorry, that's pointless. I don't think that's a nice goal at all.
> 
> The modules were invented so that we'd have related libraries together and 
> they could release at different pace if required. It's technically supposed
> to  be possible to use only a subset of the modules.
> 
> It makes no sense to build Qt without any platform plugin, for example. The 
> plugins must stay with QtGui, which implies that QtCore, QtNetwork and
> QtDBus must too.

Don't be sorry, you are right :-) From that perspective it doesn't make sense. 
My perspective was a bit closer to autotest execution; for example why to run 
dbus tests while a change is touching only gui. Separate modules are solving 
that problem somehow naturally, but you are right we can fix it on a different 
level, without bumping modules count.

Btw. it seems that only xcb platform plugin depends on dbus and that the 
dependency is optional.

Cheers,
  Jędrek
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