New dependency for KPat

[Eric Hameleers]

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Luigi Toscano wrote:

> 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?

There's a limit to what Slackware should carry in the core distro. A 
freecell solver library is not what I would consider critical to the 
distro. Unlike other distros, Slackware does not know official 
repositories beyond what it offers on its official DVD and ISO 
distribution media, so freecell-solver can not be 'parked' in some 
repositor where an automatic dependency resolving (which Slackware 
does not have either) would find it. That would lead to a requirement 
to add the solver to the core, where it would have to fight with all 
the other packages for available space on the DVD.

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

Not yet, indeed. That will change. My Plasma 5 repository for 
Slackware is exactly what will replace Slackware's KDE4 (soon-ish).
I don't want to introduce any more bloat than I already had to in 
order to offer reasonable functionality in Slackware's to-be Plasma 5 
Desktop Environment.

>> We are also not a RPM based distro FYI.
>
> Sure you are not, but why mention it, given that pretty much anyone knows it?

I wonder ;-)
I found my feedback prudent after Fabian's casual remark about his 
investigation "As far as I can tell, there is already a package 
available in Debian, and there is a RPM, though that one not available 
in all RPM based distros".

Cheers, Eric

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