Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:20:20 +0300 From: Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org> To: Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: "Jason E. Hale" <jhale@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 3d9a2a18ec99 - main - sysutils/plasma6-kinfocenter: Add missing runtime dependencies Message-ID: <2347672.mfXeX5GmMH@mercury> In-Reply-To: <Z9WwWAnXQocVvb6_@FreeBSD.org> References: <202503132159.52DLx6Es007921@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <4fe93835-ca07-4e7a-8550-f0e99e986a7d@freebsd.org> <Z9WwWAnXQocVvb6_@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:52:40 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > I'm not a KDE user, but I'd like to support Vladimir here, because the > issue of optional dependencies being forced upon advanced users applies > on a larger scale. kinfocenter is just a graphical wrapper around a bunch of info utilities. If you do not need them in the first place, why would you bother to install the wrapper? > Sound issues aside: if someone asks to make some feature optional and > it doesn't cost much, then why not? Simply keep it on by default and > everyone would be happy. Good question! Do you count cost of making a choice in the total cost? :) Joking aside, we do maintain some options in KDE/Qt ports. Unfortunately, we can't please everyone maintaining options for all configure knobs. Maxhome | help
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