externalized libraries - rationale for not optional

[Leo Franchi]

Leo Franchi
Tufts University 2010
lfranchi at gmail.com
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On Apr 5, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> wiw - Amarok shouldn't appear broken if a plugin isn't found at
>> runtime. It should behave nicely, and if you can show us where this
>> happens I'm sure we'd be happy to fix where possible.
>>
>
> just to clarify on the packagers list I was told by Mark Kretschman
>
>> No, we have no plans of making this optional. And yes, disabling it
>> will make Amarok appear broken.
>
> so what's the story?
>
> the thing is I can understand (to an extent) asking binary distro's to
> not ship witout x, y, z. but you can't stop them... and in minimalist
> in source distro's it's a bit different. why should I enable last.fm
> support if I don't have a last.fm account. why use amarok when exaile
> is smaller (I don't know that's true) by only a few k. it's about
> choice, and minimalism, and to a degree bug testing. if I disable
> last.fm and am having a proble with tracks in the playlist queueing
> right you can rule that out. the same rationale goes for taglib-extras
> and qtscriptgenerator, why am I enabling them if they provide zero
> needed functionality. the problem comes to, if I disable (for example)
> last.fm will the options for it still be in the menu's (what about the
> others too)
>
>
>> The bottom line is that you need a good justification to make
>> something optional.
>
> I disagree... you need a good reason to make it not optional.
>

Let's just say we disagree on this point, so you'll just have to let  
it slide.

Leo



> tell me why I should install mp4 support when the only audio I have is
> mp3, ogg and flac. on a binary distro I want it all to work. on
> gentoo* I expect to install only that which I need or think I will
> need.
> -- 
> Caleb Cushing
>
> http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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