[kde-freebsd] Re: Why does qtconfig require so many components?

[Doug Barton]

On 04/17/2011 20:32, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Doug Barton<dougb at FreeBSD.org>  writes:
>
>> On 04/17/2011 14:24, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>>
>>> All the qt4 dependencies are really required, even phonon, as you can
>>> configure your Qt-related phonon settings via qtconfig.
>>
>> It sounds like you're saying that qtconfig must have phonon stuff
>> available at compile time because it contains code that is not
>> optional that allows you to configure phonon. If so, thank you for the
>> explanation, however it turns out that is not correct.
>
> You are right, sorry. qtconfig's code only builds the Phonon-related
> parts if Phonon is present.
>
> [snip]
>
>> So this argues pretty strongly for an OPTION in qtconfig to add phonon
>> support via those 3 items above. Probably reasonable to default it to
>> on in order to match the status quo.
>
> I agree. I've never worked directly on the qt4-* ports, so I think it is
> safe to wait for someone else who has to express his opinion here.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156462

>> While you're at it, it would be nice to have an OPTION to remove
>> qt3support. That module took quite a while to build, and is completely
>> useless for me (and I'd imagine most users as well).
>
> Do you mean an OPTION in the qt4-qtconfig port itself? If so, I'm afraid
> it's not possible, as qtconfig's code still uses some qt3-compatibility
> bits from qt3support.

It would likely take a little bit of patching, yes. But no one said it 
was going to be easy. :)


Doug

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