Bug 518376

Summary:	[kde overlay] kde-plasma/plasma-desktop should not RDEPEND on sys-apps/accountsservice
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Franz Trischberger <franz.trischberger>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Franz Trischberger 2014-07-28 10:58:41 UTC

This is just an idea I had while struggling with accountsservice. plasma-desktop pulls it in as a hard dependency for managing users (as it looks). I don't have a need for that, as I manage my accounts through cmdline.
The big issue with accountsservice is that it pulls in the whole polkit/consolekit/... stack. This would be the only package that requires it here, so I would be happy if I could avoid it.
As I don't use many other KCMs the idea of a USE-expand came to my mind. Especially people with rather minimal setups could profit from reduced dependencies.

Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2014-07-28 11:08:33 UTC

At least for accountsservice, since it's runtime-only I guess it's not *strictly* required. We really do need that "recommended deps" feature in a new EAPI.

Comment 2 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-29 19:58:34 UTC

Please report this to upstream then. If they provide a build option to disable the kcm module we make the dep optional too. As long it leaves a module which is unusable and always visible this is not a good idea.