aRts is not a required dependency of kdelibs

[alexander@…]

When compiling kdelibs, one can add the --without-arts switch

[Randy McMurchy]

This might be technically correct, however, the KDE devs think differently. Note this comment from ​http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Getting_Started/Build/Stable_Version

"Make sure to compile and install arts first, and afterwards kdelibs and then kdebase before any other packages."

So, we either leave things as they are, or:

1. Put (not technically required but you should install it

anyway) in the aRTS dependency of kdelibs.

2. Change it to a recommended dependency.

If there's no further comments about this ticket, I'll close it as wontfix and we'll leave things as they are.

[alexander@…]

I think this should be changed to a Recommended dependency.

[Robert Daniels]

I would prefer to leave arts as a required dependency, possibly with a note as per option 1.

Reasons being: 1) Without arts, all system sounds are disabled. Not really a must-have feature, but there you have it. 2) More importantly, if arts is not installed, the --without-arts switch must be passed to every kde package, not just kdelibs. So if arts is not required from kdelibs, it would have to be listed as recommended on each kde page.

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to rdaniels:

I would prefer to leave arts as a required dependency, possibly with a note as per option 1.

Your reasons seem sound to me. I think the policy should be that we assume that recommended dependencies are installed. If not, then users are on their own.

Let's just move aRts to recommended for kdelibs and leave the rest alone.

[Randy McMurchy]

Assigning to Robert as he's already created a patch for this.

[Robert Daniels]

Fixed in rev. 7333.