Re: kio-extras really not needed anymore?

"Rainer Fiebig" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]>
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Am 16.11.24 um 17:48 schrieb Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via
blfs-dev Mailing List):
> On 11/16/24 04:37, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing
> List) wrote:
>> I noticed that with commit f806bbf2991848ab272a8b6749de3dd86f544e50
>> kio-extras was removed from the book because it is thought to be "no
>> longer needed for the packages in the book".
>>
>> When I asked for kio-extras to be added to the book a few years ago, it
>> was necessary
>> - for the listing and display of man-/info-pages in KDE-Helpcenter
>> - to display the thumbnails of available wallpapers
>> - to exchange data with a smartphone (libmtp also necessary)
>>
>> Perhpaps this has changed in Plasma-6.  If not, I suggest to
>> re-introduce kio-extras, as all of the above mentioned functionality can
>> be considered important.
> 
> Have you confirmed that kio-extras is needed for that functionality?
Yes for Plasma-5.  Libmtp >=1.1.2 is an optional runtime-dependency.

You could countercheck that for Plasma-6: if kio-extras is needed for
Plasma-6, too, and you had built Plasma-6 without it, the aforementioned
features should not be available.

Rainer

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