New dependency for KPat

[Luigi Toscano]

Eric Hameleers ha scritto:
> 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.

Just to understand: freecell-solver is a FLOSS library. Is there any issue
that prevents it from being added to the repository?

Also, Slackware don't have any Frameworks application yet in current, so this
does not affect you - not now, at least..

> We are also not a RPM based distro FYI.

Sure you are not, but why mention it, given that pretty much anyone knows it?

Ciao
-- 
Luigi