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
