Policy on implicit transitive dependencies

[Daan De Meyer]

Hi,

While checking if any addon libraries could be removed, I found that many
libraries in `target_link_libraries` calls on addons can be removed simply
because those libraries are in the INTERFACE requirements of KTextEditor
(for example I18n). Is it preferred to still explicitly link against I18n
using `target_link_libraries` or is it fine to just link against
KTextEditor (because then many addons can link against just KTextEditor to
gain access to all their dependencies)?

The annoying thing with specifying all dependencies explicitly is that
there's no easy way to check if you explicitly listed every dependency
because you might always transitively get that dependency via another
dependency.

Regards,

Daan
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