New dependency for KPat

[Eric Hameleers]

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Fabian K. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there is currently a patch under review which improves the solver for 2 of the
> supported games. However, it would add a new dependency on the freecell-solver
> library from http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/. As far as I can tell, there is
> already a package available in Debian, and there is a RPM, though that one is
> not available in all RPM based distros.
>
> We'd like to add the library as a hard dependency, but before doing so we'd
> like to know if that would pose issues for any distribution.
>
> Regards,
> Fabian

I am not in favor of this at all. Slackware would have to drop the 
packages that have freecell-solver as a hard dep.
I don't understand why this can not be made optional.
We are also not a RPM based distro FYI.

Cheers, Eric

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