plasma-vault will require gocryptfs in Plasma 6.4

Christophe Marin christophe at krop.fr
Thu Apr 24 13:30:12 BST 2025


On jeudi 24 avril 2025 14:13:39 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Nate Graham 
wrote:
> 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/49463366e488642c7a236
> >> 8f9 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?
> 

Both. The commit is technically wrong because it requires a runtime dependency 
at build time. It's called 'RUNTIME' for a reason.









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