On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote: > Hey everyone > > For 4.10, Nepomuk will no longer depend on Strigi for file indexing. We have > written our own file indexer which are based on popular libraries such as > taglib, exiv, ffmpeg, etc. This allows us to better control the indexing > process. If you would like to know more reasons as to why the change was > done, please read [1]. > > I will be merging this new file indexing code into master by the end of the > week. > > @ Packagers: > > I talked with Will Stephenson (OpenSuse) a couple of weeks back, and he > informed me that it might be problematic for distributions to ship > nepomuk-core if it depends on ffmpeg, taglib, and other packages which are > slightly controversial. Is this going to be a problem? He suggested that the > file indexing plugins be present in a separate repository. It doesn't affect > us much, so I would like to know your opinion? Do you want it to be in a > separate repo? > > [1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/nepomuk/2012-September/003167.html > > -- > Vishesh Handa > > > _______________________________________________ > Nepomuk mailing list > nepo...@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk >
For starters, we can probably add conditional compilation, no? Isn't that the case? If you need help on the cmake side maybe I can help. If one of those libraries is "controversial" maybe we should either choose not to use it and prefer another instead? Maybe a list of dependencies would be interesting for packages to consider them! In any case, I'm unsure that KDE can shine without ffmpeg. Aleix >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
