Adding dependency xdg-user-dirs to plasma-desktop

Adriaan de Groot groot at kde.org
Thu Mar 11 09:50:36 GMT 2021


On Thursday, 11 March 2021 10:08:38 CET Méven wrote:
> With Plasma 5.22, I intend to make xdg-user-dirs a runtime dependency for
> plasma-desktop to allow the translation of the "desktop path" names in its
> KCM i.e xdg-user-dirs .

xdg-user-dirs is an application / executable, apparently. I don't get the 
logic of checking for an executable at build-time in order to load a 
translation catalogue from somewhere at runtime.

> I expect this not to be a problem, given that plasma-desktop already
> depends on xdg-user-dirs indirecly.

Does it? Why? How? (This means: not in my packaging, so what am I missing 
because of that?)

> Let me know if that causes any issues.

Dave points out in the review that worst-case it will fall back to English, so 
nothing will change for the user. So (back to my packaging case) no, no issue.

[ade]
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