is libAttica really required?

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday 27 November 2009 09:03:32 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> I've just stumbled over kdeplasma-addons not building. Apparently its
> the ocs-dataengine that fails because I don't have libattica here. I'm
> just wondering wether that one can be made optional? So far other places
> in trunk using libattica (khns3's upload facility) are optional...

I think it can be made optional. The problem is that the engine is a runtime 
dependency of the knowledgebase and opendesktop applets, those will simply not work 
if the engine can't be loaded. I'm not sure how we deal with this kind of stuff (or 
if we just require packages to figure this out).

> Please CC me on replies.
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sebas

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