kdeedu-marble and digikam

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On 04/23/2009 04:55 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
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> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>> On 04/23/2009 08:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Ben Boeckel wrote:
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>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>>>>> I want to remove kdeedu-marble, having no use for
> it,
>>>> but yum tells me
>>>>> this leads to removing digikam as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> What has a mapping application go to do with a
> photo
>>>> manager?
>>>>
>>>> Digikam can show where a photo was taken on a map
> if
>>>> the EXIF tags are there. It should probably be an
>>>> optional dependency, but that'd be something for
>>>> upstream to sort out most likely.
>>> correct, GEOIP tagging feature, which is linked into
> the application, so
>>> it's not possible to remove the hard dep (without
> losing the feature).
>> <rant>
>> Let me just say for the record that this sucks.
> kdeedu-marble is a 30MB
>> download which I have no intention of using, not even
> for geo-tagging,
>> i.e. I don't care about losing the feature and I
> conjecture that this is
>> likely to be true of a great many users. It's absurd
> that this isn't
>> optional. I get it that it's an upstream problem, so
> my complaint is
>> really directed at the KDE folks, but still.
>> </rant>
>>
>> I guess I'll register my displeasure on the KDE BZ.
>>
>> poc
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> It could possibly be added as a KService, but I don't
> know if Digikam's architecture is amenable to this
> (plugins would handle displaying of certain EXIF
> tags?). If it can't be made into a KService, there's
> not much we can do about it. If it can be, I'd expect
> 4.4 to be the earliest you can expect it. Mind linking
> the bug you filed here?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190476

poc