[Kde-bindings] Does Qyoto really need KDE libs?

Ian Monroe ian.monroe at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 21:07:56 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, IBBoard <ibboard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried installing Qyoto on my Fedora machine at work and noticed
> that it was trying to pull in quite large chunks of the core of KDE (at
> least it seemed quite large - there were a number of packages, more than
> I'd have expected). At first I just thought that it was lazy packaging
> and that they hadn't split it up as well as they could have on the
> assumption that KDE users would be using Qt. Now that I'm at home I've
> checked my openSUSE install and I've got libkde4 and libkdecore4
> installed, amongst other packages, and can't remove them because of
> dependencies from Smoke.
>
> Does Smoke (and hence Qyoto) really need to be integrated with KDE
> (libsmoke2 apparently requires libkdeui.so.5 and libakonadi, the PIM
> app) or is it just a packaging issue that I could work around if I
> repackaged things myself?

Smoke can be built for Qt-only bindings I believe. The KDE and Akonadi
 smoke libraries are in separate files for sure so smoke could be
split into several packages.

Ian



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