Why is lastfm a required dependency?

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On 2009 m. June 22 d., Monday 23:51:03 Leo Franchi wrote:

> Your replies in the email were against the argument for/against
> liblastfm being a required dependency, but that is not what I was
> responding to. I was replying to your complaint that amarok "attracts
> many exotic required dependencies"---just to explain how I don't think
> liblastfm is very exotic at all (it just is right right now because
> we're early).

MySQLe - still exotic, but I can understand why it is required (at least at 
the moment). ok.
QtScriptGenerator - exotic (and really PITA), but I still understand why it is 
required (and no, it being embedded in Amarok source wasn't any better).
Last.fm - exotic and I do not understand why it is required. Even when 
official last.fm player uses it, it will still be exotic.

The more amarok is easy to build, the more users will test it. Even if a 
distro shipped Amarok beta without last.fm, why would you be angry about it? 
Do you want testers or not? Or do you want to push last.fm? Sorry for being 
rude, but it was not the first time I heard that packagers argument and I was 
ignored numerous times. At least somebody is trying to discuss now.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modestas at vainius.eu>
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