On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@cogeco.ca>wrote:

> At 4:31 PM +0100 3/22/14, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote:
>
>> On 22 Mar 2014, at 14:16 , Jeremy Lavergne <jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  And I think I know why: the kioslave entry is commented out in the
>>> kdepimlib toplevel CMakeLists.txt file Š
>>>
>>
>> Any idea what this was commented out?
>> Is that a patch applied only to make KMail run on MacPorts or is that
>> coming from KDE?
>>
>
> I hesitate to say anything, because I really don't know anything about the
> problem at hand, but could the 'ioslave' be a daemon that they're trying to
> start?  OS X won't permit that but Linux does.


KDE on OS X already starts plenty of daemons (notably kdeinit). While
you're "supposed" to do stuff through launchd, it's not absolutely
mandatory, can't be enforced, and KDE would be rather difficult to get
working at all if you couldn't.

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