From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865211381F3 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42A36E09E0; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 832E0E0960 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968A133EAF9 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:30:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.657 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.657 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.428, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.227, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mu2py5ZEpnbC for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3ACFE33EA8B for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UvSYt-0005Vr-HE for gentoo-desktop@gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:30:03 +0200 Received: from ppp118-209-15-147.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.15.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:30:03 +0200 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-15-147.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:30:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Interest inquery: kde4-nosemantic overlay Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 23:12:42 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20130704220224.GB6976@ion> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-15-147.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: <20130704220224.GB6976@ion> X-Archives-Salt: 8bb2c83e-54eb-424f-aa63-feffea5abef0 X-Archives-Hash: d1ce484d5c972818bb7ed84e80b1dcb9 On 5/07/2013 08:02, Alex Alexander wrote: > That said, I do agree that semantic-desktop should stay optional in > KDE4. Back in my KDE days I hated it and always ensured it - and its > ugly dependencies - stayed off my system. Unfortunately I am not part of > the KDE team anymore, so I don't know what their reasoning is behind > this decision. Hopefully they will reconsider :) > The reason is that code like this is appearing increasingly throughout the KDE SC: find_package(Akonadi REQUIRED) set_package_properties(NepomukCore PROPERTIES TYPE REQUIRED) That is, we must maintain hacks in order to disable upstream's requirements. They are difficult to maintain and also put us in a bad standing with upstream. Best regards, Michael