On Tuesday, 11 November 2025 14:38:54 Greenwich Mean Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 11/11/25 9:23 AM, 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. > > Gentoo doesn't insist on it. > > > I suppose I could make a local version of it without the dependency, but I > > wonder why someone might think I should have to. > > I can absolutely promise you that you will do no such thing. The > software will not compile successfully without qtspeech installed. > > You are, of course, welcome to fork / modify the C++ codebase to make it > not use qtspeech -- or make it accept an option to disable such -- and > even propose that patch to the KDE project. If KDE accepts it, Gentoo > could then add a USE flag for it...
Well, I only asked. No need to shout. -- Regards, Peter.
