Bug#579811: Does linking to libkcal4 really must pull kdepim-runtime ?

[Regis Boudin <regis@boudin.name>]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 03:03 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On šeštadienis 01 Gegužė 2010 02:16:59 Regis Boudin wrote:
> > I'm the maintainer of Tellico, and I tried to build it against the coming
> > KDE4.4.2 from experimental. I noticed the split of the package into
> > libraries, which is great. However, I also noticed that they pretty much
> > all make the application linking to them depend on kdepim-runtime.
> > 
> > This pretty much seems to defeat the purpose of splitting the package,
> > since tellico ends up depending on kdepim-runtime, which in turn pulls
> > akonadi-server (and mysql-server-core as well).
> 
> This was not a purpose of splitting but rather a side effect. Our *-runtime 
> stuff is still monolithic and it is complicated to split them due to lack of 
> support for such configuration upstream and unpredictable effects on the end 
> applications.

Ok, I don't get everything, but the whole thing seems tricky...

> > Tellico is linked to libkcal and libkabc for really non-core features,
> > therefore it would be really nice if you could remove the dependency on
> > kdepim- runtime in the shlibs files, so the users don't end up pulling all
> > the kdepim infrastructure for an optional feature.
> 
> kdepim is heading towards akonadi being mandatory. You need akonadi to access 
> calendar (kcal) and addressbook (kabc) as of KDE SC 4.4. So that kdepim-
> runtime injection is rather logical. What is more, could you be more specific 
> which non-core features you have in mind here? It is possible to nitpick 
> kdepim-runtime injection on the symbol level but we need to get those things 
> right from the first try.

Tellico is a collection manager. It is linked to libkcal/libkabc because
it is possible to mark an item as lent to someone, who can be picked
from the KDE address book, and to add to the calendar the date at which
they should be returned. So definitely not a core feature, and tellico
has been working with KDE 4 and without akonadi for some time now.

Thanks

Regis