Why is lastfm a required dependency?

[Leo Franchi]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Modestas Vainius wrote:

> 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

You still missed my point. I'm not arguing that amarok should require  
liblastfm by default. I simply stated some points for and against, in  
order to start a discussion.

If i have to choose, i would probably vote for having liblastfm being  
an optional dependency.

leo