is libAttica really required?

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 27.11.2009, at 17:53, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> On November 27, 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> in this case it's simple enough: we can disable those widgets as well.



libattica is also required for the new hotnewstuff3 in kdelibs.
So it is probably a hard requirement


Frank

 

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