an additional requirement on kdelibs

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Tue Mar 13 13:07:00 GMT 2007


Am Dienstag 13 März 2007 schrieb David Faure:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 13 März 2007 schrieb Dirk Mueller:
> > > On Monday, 5. March 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > Is this the only place in KDE where we use libexpat (I know strigi is
> > > > independent from KDE) ?
> > > > If yes, can you please try to replace it with libxml, which we
> > > > already depend on ?
> > >
> > > libexpat is a dependency of libXft, so unless you're not using X11, it
> > > is already a dependency, while libxml is additional cruft.
> > >
> > > So it depends ;)
> >
> > What is the percentage of our user group you expect to compile X11
> > itself? I consider it _much_ lower than the group of people wanting to
> > have documentation when compiling KDE herself.
>
> I don't understand your post, Stephan.
>
> I don't compile X11 myself (kubuntu does that for me), and yet:
> ldd /usr/lib/libXft.so | grep libexpat
>         libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7c31000)


Yeah, but would /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 be sufficient to compile strigi? I 
doubt it

Greetings, Stephan




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