Dario Freddi wrote:
Hey guys,
after this neat announcement, since it looks like we're about to have a great GUI for alpm with GTK+, I think I could take the big step and make Shaman hard-depend on kdelibs for the next version (1.3). In fact many of the changes I'm making really require a lot of hassle to keep the Qt only and KDE version play together.
Please share your opinion (given that Shaman is inside community, too). Do you think it is worth it/can create problems to make Shaman hard depend on KDELibs?
Firstly, I quite like the dichotomy that current happens with shaman - in Arch [community] repo it is Qt only while in Chakra it is more fully integrated as part of the KDEmod experience. From a non-KDE users perspective, I would no longer consider using Shaman if it depended on kdelibs given that is a fairly bulky package. The Qt dep is fairly easily justified even for a user who is primarily in a GTK+ desktop as it is probably used for something like Skype anyway. But if using kdelibs would make supporting shaman a lot easier, then I know what I would be doing... Allan