Installing Kdenlive-git from AUR on Arch not installing essential dependencies

[Evert Vorster]

Hi there, Jesse.

I maintain both the kdenlive-git and kdenlive-applications-git
packages in Arch.

The software functions without these packages installed, which means
that they are optional. I was asked specifically to make these
packages optional.

There are some users that do not want to install the whole kde just to
have a good video editor. Breeze is quite a large download for someone
on dial-up, for instance.

I am not in the business of telling people how to use their computers,
and if some people want to use kdenlive without the above-mentioned
packages installed, it is possible. Making a package non-optional
removes that possibility, and is not a very nice thing to do to quite
a surprisingly large group of people.

So, yes there is a way, but no, I am not going to do it.

Kind regards,
Evert


On 18/11/2016, Jesse DuBord <jesse.dubord at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd noticed during a test build & install of Kdenlive-git from AUR on
> Antergos (Arch Linux) that it doesn't install the breeze, oxygen-icon or
> frei0r-plugins packages by default, which eliminates the possibility of
> the new dark default Breeze look after install as well as some icons and
> effects.
>
> Evert, I believe you have some part in the packaging for the git master
> build on AUR, yeah? Is there a way these packages could be added as
> dependencies, and not optional ones? Does anyone disagree that these
> should be recognized as non-optional dependencies for Kdenlive to
> function as expected?
>
>


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Evert Vorster
Isometrix Acquistion Superchief