kde4-runtime, samba3, and talloc

Nicolas Pavillon nicos at macports.org
Sat Apr 25 02:34:48 PDT 2015


Hello, 

Well, what is clear is that the dependency on samba3 must be made as a variant, would it be only to make it possible for users to not require it without too much hassle. The real question is then if the variant should be made default in kde4-runtime or not.

Cheers, 

Nicolas


> On Apr25, 2015, at 18:21, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday April 25 2015 10:38:03 Marko Käning wrote:
> 
>> Well, I believe that samba should rather move into a dedicated variant, as it
>> is perhaps not necessarily of general interest for all MacPorts/KDE users…
> 
> I'd argue the opposite. kde4-runtime is a "base" package, providing functionality used by other KDE4 apps. "notmuch" on the other hand provides a very specific and IMVHO rather obscure functionality. I think that someone who really wants to have both ports installed can decide for him/herself if it's worth building kde4-runtime from source with -nosamba (or -samba with +samba being a default variant) and suffering the potential loss of functionality in certain KDE4 apps. 
> 
> R.



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