(Some snippage for bandwidth reasons) On Saturday 14 June 2003 18:23, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Perhaps. I'm not sure what Heimo means by "a no-no". Last I read, the KDE > license was revised to be DFSG compliant (quite some time ago, I believe) > and there was no longer any reason not to include its components in a > Debian distro. I believe Qt had its own licensing issues, but that was resolved some time back. > I don't use ppp myself any longer, but I do use several apps that require > one or another of the QT libraries. Debian-Sid (Unstable) seems to have no > problem providing them, and my system ... which uses blackbox as its WM and > doesn't run any desktop encironment ... has no trouble running them. My preferred browser is Opera, which I believe uses Qt (and I notice doesn't come with Debian, but that may be because of Opera's own licensing terms). I haven't tried installing Opera under Debian yet, be interesting to see if it works. > A search of the online package archive for Debian-Sid turns up these > candidates (not all make sense for your need, though): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search pppd > gpppkill - GTK+ pppd monitoring and control utility > ipmasq - Securely initializes IP Masquerade forwarding/firewalling > ipppd - PPP daemon for syncPPP over ISDN > isdnutils - Most important ISDN-related packages and utilities > isdnutils-base - ISDN utilities, the basic (minimal) set > kernel-patch-mppe - MPPE Encryption for PPP > kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd (snip) I see kppp in that list.... I'll assume for the present that KPPP is now supported in Debian and carry on with my debugging efforts. Thanks cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
