Re: Interest inquery: kde4-nosemantic overlay

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