Created attachment 304079 [details] dolphin-4.8.0-r2.ebuild Dolphin has a really nice VCS interface, which sadly is hidden because kde-base/dolphin-plugins is not installed automatically (at least it was not for me). → http://vishesh-yadav.com/blog/2011/10/13/mercurial-plug-in-for-dolphin-work-progress-part-2/ → http://sebastian-doerner.de/2011/09/a-git-plugin-for-dolphin/ A user who has the useflag mercurial or git active is very likely to want to have the VCS plugins, so these useflags should trigger a dependency of dolphin on kde-base/dolphin-plugins. I updated the ebuild accordingly.
Just install kde-base/dolphin-plugins with the right use flags.
I did that now, but it took me half a year to discover the functionality. That’s why I think that a user who explicitely wants his tools to support one of the VCS’s will likely want dolphin-plugins.
Perhaps at least an einfo could be added to dolphin?
This issue falls under what we call "optional run-time dependencies" and our policy is not to add them to packages. We have agreed on adding info about them on postinst messages, though.
