About kwin and its aurorae + breeze dependencies in 6.4

Vlad Zahorodnii vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org
Fri May 16 08:39:55 BST 2025


Hi,

In Plasma 6.4, we relaxed aurorae and breeze dependencies of kwin so 
they are not hard build-time dependencies anymore, but rather runtime 
dependencies.

We would like to ask distributions to ensure that those both packages 
are pre-installed with Plasma, otherwise the users will face a situation 
where their Plasma session has no window decorations, and so on. Our 
packaging guidelines suggest to pre-install everything in plasma by 
default (except some packages) [1], but some Linux distributions apply a 
policy where they don't pre-install dependencies marked as runtime or 
optional and leave it to the user, this is a case where it's not a good 
idea.

Regards,
Vlad

[1] 
https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations#Plasma_packages
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