--- clementine-1.2.0/CMakeLists.txt
+++ clementine-1.2.0/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -313,21 +313,6 @@
   message(STATUS "Building static qsqlite plugin")
   add_subdirectory(3rdparty/qsqlite)
   include_directories("3rdparty/qsqlite")
-else()
-  if (NOT I_HATE_MY_USERS)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "No, really, Clementine needs sqlite to be linked "
-        "statically.  If it's not, Clementine won't be able to resolve the "
-        "functions it needs to register full text search support.  Search will "
-        "be really slow and users will be unhappy.  If you're packaging "
-        "Clementine for a distribution and you really hate your users and want "
-        "them to have a bad time please rerun cmake with -DI_HATE_MY_USERS=ON")
-  else()
-    if (NOT MY_USERS_WILL_SUFFER_BECAUSE_OF_ME)
-      message(FATAL_ERROR "So you really hate your users and you want to "
-          "create a crippled package that doesn't work properly?  Please send "
-          "an email to the devs and help us understand why.")
-    endif()
-  endif()
 endif(STATIC_SQLITE)
 
 # When/if upstream accepts our patches then these options can be used to link