Dependency to Network Manager / kf5-NetworkManagerQt in plasma-workspace

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 10:47:11 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > Could you make this feature, and therefore the dependency on Network
> > Manager, optional at build time?
> 
> as I was addressed directly: no I won't do that as I don't see the need and 
> don't have the time for testing that.
> 
> A patch doing that could be evaluated, I would recommend to not accept such
> a  patch, but others in the team might see it differently.
> 
> In my opinion NetworkManagerQt is a defacto hard-dependency of the combined 
> product Plasma we provide, thus also plasma-workspace can depend on it. My
> system I'm just writing on doesn't use NetworkManager either, nevertheless
> I do not think that compiling without support for NetworkManager is a valid
> use case which we as the devs should spend time on. Given that we all just
> run kdesrc-build which compiles everything (which is the same the CI does)
> we would not be able to track a build failure. I have been at that place
> with KWin many times and want our CMake dependencies to be as accurate to
> what we can guarantee as possible. Even more I just recently noticed that
> distributions do the packaging mostly automatic nowadays resulting in very
> important, but optional, dependencies to not be picked up.

I would prefer having network-manager-qt as optional build dependency. Just 
feels that way from having dealt with it for years.
-- 
sebas

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