Bug 107480

Summary:	Digikam has unnecessary dependency on libgphoto2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John Herdy <johnherdy>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Herdy 2005-09-28 01:29:17 UTC

Digikam doesn't need libgphoto to work. Digikam is an "image management tool"
with a feature that allows users to retrieve images from their digital camera. A
lot of users don't have a digital camera but use digikam to manage and
manipulate their images. There is no reason to intall the (lib)gphoto2 related
ebuilds.

Other (kde) packages use the (global) useflag gphoto2 for optional
gphoto2-support. Would you be so kind to add this to digikam also? Thanks in
advance.

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-10 07:26:51 UTC

The question is not if libgphoto is needed, but if the dependency can be
reliably determined. Autodetection leads to wrongly stored dependencies and is a
showstopper for a future Portage version with support for proper reverse
dependency checking. So as long as there's no configure flag to determine, if
Digikam will be built with libgphoto, it won't be optional.

Comment 2 John Herdy 2005-12-14 07:21:22 UTC

I understand, thanks for the info, I have created a bug-report in KDE-Bugzilla
to add a configure flag for this; http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118318

If the KDE-bug is resolved I will reopen this bug.