Why is lastfm a required dependency?

[Orville Bennett]

Leo Franchi wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Thrash Dude wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:19:37 -0400, Leo Franchi wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We are using liblastfm as a dependency because:
>>>
>>> a) Building libraries internally is stupid and just leads to bloat b)
>>> Sharing code amongst different system processes is a *good thing*.
>> And having yet another package split out from Amarok that also needs
>> to
>> be tracked is better?
>>
>> This makes at least 3 split out packages that now need to be tracked.
>> Instead of needing to track a single package (Amarok) you now have to
>> track 4 packages to get the exact same effect. That looks like bloat
>> to
>> me.
>
> Bloat would be bundling these 3 packages inside amarok so that any
> other project that also wants to use them needs to install it
> themselves as well. That would lead to multiple copies of the same
> library on your system AND loaded in RAM, which is most definitely
> bloat.
+1

>
> Breaking out dependencies allows projects to share them. That is a
> good thing.
+1++

>
> leo
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