New dependency for KPat

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Thursday, 17 May 2018 01:04:59 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dijous, 17 de maig de 2018, a les 0:15:39 CEST, Eric Hameleers va 
escriure:
> > 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?

Essentialy, yes :)
It's a fine line we are walking and I'm not saying our decisions always make 
sense, but every time a new package would need to be added we look at the 
general use of that new package, and several criteria might decide if it goes 
in or not.

Anyway, I don't want to blow this out of proportion, since at the end of the 
day, this is our problem to solve, not yours.

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.

With my kde developer hat on I say pick what you think you need to do in order 
to deliver what you consider the best experience for the user. If that means 
relying on an external library, then so be it.

With my slackware packager hat on I say beware that additional dependencies 
could mean decreased availability of your application.

In the end it's your choice to make which one outweighs the other :)

Grs,
Heinz
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