kdeedu-marble and digikam

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 22:46 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Sunday 26 April 2009 20:20:31 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > On 04/26/2009 11:59 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > 
> > > Its a packaging error because the package is not required to make
> marble
> > > work. If digikam it is not required it is not a dependency. An
> error In
> > > computer parlance is called a bug.
> > 
> > It's the other way around, and it's not a packaging bug.
> > 
> > digikam requires kdeedu-marble, if built with marble support.
> > 
> > install both and try
> > rpm -e --nodeps kdeedu-marble
> > digikam will no longer start.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Ahh. So the feature is compiled in. As such digikam expects marble to
> be in place. Then Patrick I would have to agree that it be included.
> With all due respect; for those that would be relying on the feature
> it would be sorely missed if it wasn't there. And then we would be
> complaining that the feature wasn't included.
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe you should try to communicate with the developers and ask them
> if there is any way to get digikam to compile with support built,
> check if the package is installed and run even if the package is not
> installed. That way the dependency can be removed. Until such time
> Fedora has no real option but to include it.

My Bugzilla report was to KDE, not to Fedora
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190476). I don't expect Fedora to
do anything about it.

poc