Separate kdeconnectd to another package

[Matthijs Tijink]

Hi Gary,

As Aleix mentioned, the packagers should fix that. I don't really know how the 
packaging on Debian works, so if someone on the mailing list knows: please 
look on at the dependencies and contact the Debian maintainers for KDE Connect 
with suggestions for improvement. I couldn't find a KDE Connect package for 
Deepin Linux, so can't verify it, or give feedback to Deepin Linux.

Regarding building: I we don't officially support installing these separately. 
That shouldn't really be an issue though: installing the plasma applet is fine 
even if you have plasma (expect if you care about the <100 KB you lost).
Nevertheless, I *think* you can get by with only installing "core", "daemon", 
"indicator", "interfaces" and "plugins". But I wouldn't really recommended 
that.

Kind regards, Matthijs Tijink

Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 03:51:45 CEST schreef Wang Gary:
> > Can you tell me what dependencies KDE Connect has on your distribution?
> 
> My Arch linux laptop got no problem since I'm already using KDE on it. For
> another PC I got Linux Deepin and `apt depends kdeconnectd` says it
> requires `plasma-workspace` to run (that's horrible). I also check Debian's
> package page (https://packages.debian.org/buster/kdeconnect), it have much
> less dependencies than Linux Deepin but there are still some package about
> gui which I'm not sure it's required for only a daemon. I've also checked
> other distribution's package page and I didn't find any of them split the
> daemon as a standalone package.
> 
> > Please ask your distribution, we are not in charge of packaging.
> 
> Sorry about the dumb questions since I'm really not familiar with cmake and
> packaging. I did build it from source with only `sudo make install` in
> `build/core` and `build/daemon` folder and it works for me, but I didn't
> find any make target which do only build and install kdeconnectd. Did I
> missing something or is there any extra steps to do?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> 于2018年5月3日周四 上午7:27写道：
> 
> > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:40 AM, Wang Gary <wzc782970009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > Since package of `kdeconnect` got a lots of dependencies for
> > > `kde`/`kdeconnect`'s gui, sometimes I need to work with other DE so I
> > 
> > found
> > 
> > > `indicator-kdeconnect`, and from what I have gathered, it seems it's
> > > only
> > > require `kdeconnectd` to run.
> > > Is it possible to separate `kdeconnectd` outside `kdeconnect` package?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > > 
> > > -- Gary
> > 
> > Please ask your distribution, we are not in charge of packaging. Feel
> > free to point them our way if there's questions.
> > 
> > Aleix