is libAttica really required?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On November 27, 2009, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> 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

it seems to be optional in kdelibs as well, looking at the cmake file.

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