Why is lastfm a required dependency?

Jeff Mitchell mitchell at kde.org
Mon Jun 22 18:13:00 UTC 2009


Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't find any discussion about making lastfm a required dep and it
> seems amarok itself builds just fine without it (and is also usable for
> me without it). Before I go around hunting the library and install it
> here (as Debian doesn't seem to ship it) I'd like to know the reasoning
> for making it a hard requirement.

FYI, liblastfm used to be bundled within the Amarok source code, because
it was not yet publicly released.  Now that it's publicly released, it's
good practice (just ask your local distro packager) to use distro packages.

--Jeff

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