KDE/kdenetwork/kopete

[Michael Jansen]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:34:23 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Frank Schaefer wrote:
> > Make libv4l mandatory again on Linux
> > 
> > Too many devices are not working properly without it.
> > See discussion on the kopete-devel-mailinglist (Jan/Feb 2010).
> 
> Um... why?
> 
> GGZ does't work without its libs, but kdegames doesn't make it
> mandatory. Lots of auth stuff doesn't work without polkit-qt, but it
> isn't mandatory.
> 
> I have reverted this patch locally as there is no libv4l2 on Fedora and
> I have no webcam. Why should I jump through hoops for a feature I will
> never use?
> 
> I don't care if you disable the entire webcam subsystem if libv4l2 is
> missing (with a big fat warning, of course), I only need to send and
> recieve text via jabber. Not even voice, much less video.

I second that. Disable webcam support if no lib4l2 found if you have to.

Mike