Reviewers needed for distro-deps/ files

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 6:44 AM Steve Cossette <farchord at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good morning Ben,
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> Question about this if you don't mind. I was checking the Fedora list, and noticed that there was potentially some old packages from Qt5 that potentially don't need to be there. On top of that, I assume that maintaining that list is quite taxing as dependencies change every release.
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> Is there a plan to maybe use the package manager to download the build dependencies instead? For example, in our case, you can install a package's build dependencies with dnf (dnf builddep). We could provide you with a list of frameworks/gear/plasma packages.
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> This would make it virtually foolproof.
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It's not necessarily foolproof. There are two cases where that would fail:

* New dependencies
* Qt/KF stack version upgrades (5->6, 6->7, etc.)

Providing the list there allows those dependencies to be added as soon
as they're needed with the added benefit of distributors having a
reference to understand what they need to have for the stack to build.



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