plasma-vault will require gocryptfs in Plasma 6.4

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Thu Apr 24 13:13:39 BST 2025


On 4/24/25 2:12 PM, Christophe Marin wrote:
> On jeudi 24 avril 2025 11:12:39 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Nate Graham
> wrote:
>> Hello packagers!
>>
>> This is a heads-up that in Plasma 6.4.0, plasma-vault will require
>> gocryptfs. I've added it as a runtime dependency in
>> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-vault/-/commit/49463366e488642c7a2368f9
>> 64605595de94cca5, so make sure that you either note this, or that whatever
>> system you use for detecting runtime dependencies is working!
>>
> 
> That's a bad habit we're seeing in different places: please don't mark runtime
> dependencies as REQUIRED. It's always a bad idea.

Are you saying that there's something technically wrong with the commit, 
or commenting on the general concept of required runtime dependencies in 
general?

Nate


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