Optional vs Required Dependencies

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Hi!
> On 15 Dec 2009, at 15:17, David Faure wrote:
> > We already do that quite a lot.
> >
> > I assume you have some specific dependencies in mind,
> > because otherwise the answer is only "yes, we have both kinds of
> > dependencies already, see the output of cmake in a kde module".
> > I suggest that you tell us more about which required dependencies
> > you would like to see turned into optional ones.
> 
> I should have phrased myself better. I guess I meant to ask a question:
>  what makes something a required vs optional dependency? Obviously Qt is
>  required but beyond that I'm sure you could compile some parts of KDELibs
>  with nothing else and probably get something installable. Interested in
>  your thoughts.
Look at macro_optional_find_package and macro_optional_add_subdirectory.

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Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at ya.ru
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