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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Optional dependencies and dependency mess
  • Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:51:13 +1100

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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:24, Eric Sandall wrote:
> I just saw an update to amarok's DEPENDS which added taglib as a
> dependency. amarok also depends on kdemultimedia, which optionally depends
> on taglib. How can we get this sorted so that kdemultimedia wouldn't be
> compiled without taglib support (assuming taglib isn't installed), but then
> amarok is compiled with taglib support (again, assuming the user just used
> the defaults)? Should we even care about this kind of circumstance (which
> happens in other packages as well)?
>
> -sandalle

yes
lack of it means some casts might complete but won't be fully functional
until
the parent spell is recast with the newly needed options.
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