Why is lastfm a required dependency?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 22.06.09 14:13:00, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> 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.

That doesn't answer my question at all. I know that a released lib is
better than copying its sources into your app, I'd like to know why amarok
requires lastfm in the first place?

Andreas

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