New dependency for KPat

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 17 de maig de 2018, a les 0:15:39 CEST, Eric Hameleers va escriure:
> 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. 

Just so that i understand correctly, you don't want to have a "freecell solver 
library" in the distro, but you don't have any issue having a "freecell solver 
binary" (i.e. kpat) in the distro?

Cheers,
  Albert