On Monday, 2009-07-13, Simone Piccardi wrote: > What I do not understand is why a client should be depend on the > installation of the corresponding server. It seems to like requiring to > install apache to run firefox.
Not quite, this is a different kind of server/client relation ship. This is a session runtime service, more like D-Bus clients depending on D-Bus. A part of the runtime infrastructure, essential functionality shared between applications through inter process communication. > So I cannot understand why the dependency on the akonadi plugin is > forced on all of us. It should be possible to put this in a separate > package, avoiding it if the user dos'nt need that. Not sure what the rational was given that it is a plugin not enabled by default, but you could try asking for a change from "depends" to "recommends". Cheers, Kevin
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