On Tuesday, 11 November 2025 14:23:11 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm tidying my system a bit, and I wondered why I have any app-accessibility > packages installed. I found that the ktexteditor ebuild has a hard > dependency on dev-qt/qtspeech. Does anyone know why? It doesn't seem like a > natural thing to insist on. > > I suppose I could make a local version of it without the dependency, but I > wonder why someone might think I should have to.
There is a tendency to simplify KDE packages by hardcoding dependencies, to lighten the load on devs. Their focus is on binary distros. I was searching for something similar on a different USE/dependency, I can't recall the KDE/ Plasma package right now. I discovered upstream had included a dependency to make their life easier. I don't think there's a solution to this, short of reverse engineering upstream choices. Unless a gentoo dev picks this up due to their personal preferences, it's left up to individuals to improvise.
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