If one wishes to install kmail (kdepim), emerge will not say/include kdenetwork. But without that, kmail will not be able to send/recieve mails. Trying to recieve will report a "unknown protocol pop" error Trying to send will not do anything. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge kdepim 2. open and configure kmail 3. try to send/recieve mails Actual Results: Trying to recieve will report a "unknown protocol pop" error Trying to send will not do anything. Expected Results: It should have send/recieved mails If you install kdenetwork then it works. I guess that kdepim should depend on kdenetwork
The pop protocol is in kdebase. Is it possible that you installed kdebase as a dependency when you installed kdenetwork? In that case, the bug is valid but should read "kdepim will not work without kdebase"
You are right kdenetwork depends on kdebase. I'll change the error-text.
fixed in 3.3.1