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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: PLEASE don't ! (Re: kdesupport: let's get rid of it, now.)
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2001-05-30 15:35:12
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:08:54PM +0200, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> > Others are enhancements and you can use KDE just fine, you will just
> > miss certain things such as real-time docbook parsing, sound, advanced
> > Javascript support..
> 
> This is exactly what I don't like. The idea of recommendations. As
> developer I will have to deal with the fact that some people don't feel
> like they need libaudiofile, and then artsd will have to contain all that
> of "and if you don't have libaudiofile, fail gracefully, report the error,
> hint the user what is wrong, continue working nicely" code.

In that case, the artsd people should make it a requirement not a
recommendation as it is now. That has little to do with the discussion
whether we should include the dependencies ourselves.  :-)

Rob
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