> On Feb. 19, 2014, 3:21 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > CMakeLists.txt, lines 23-32
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115863/diff/1/?file=244733#file244733line23>
> >
> >     KCompletion, KConfig[Widgets] and KCoreAddons are used, but never 
> > linked against.  So there's not much point searching for them: we're 
> > already depending on them being bought in by other libraries.
> 
> Michael Palimaka wrote:
>     The listed frameworks are directly used. I don't see how linking or not 
> makes a difference - khtml will fail to build without them. If we trust that 
> one dependency will always bring in some other dependencies that we happen to 
> also use, I am sure there are others we could remove too.
> 
> Alex Merry wrote:
>     Well, my view is that you can either find them and link against them 
> (explicit dependencies), or not find or link against them (implicitly trust 
> that the libraries you *do* link against bring them in).  Finding them and 
> not linking against them just seems a bit pointless.
> 
> Michael Palimaka wrote:
>     A dependency can still be explicit even though a binary link isn't 
> required, for example:
>     
>     src/rendering/render_form.cpp:#include <kservice.h>
>     src/rendering/render_form.cpp:            KService::List providers = 
> KServiceTypeTrader::self()->query("SearchProvider");
>     src/rendering/render_form.cpp:            foreach (const KService::Ptr 
> &provider, providers) {
>     
>     If you feel that strongly about it though, I'll drop those changes. They 
> additions don't affect me at all, I just was aiming for a 'correct' change 
> since I was touching this framework anyway.
> 
> Alex Merry wrote:
>     Yes, but this code won't work unless you link against KF5::Service, 
> either explicitly or implicitly.  If it's explicit, you should also have 
> find_package(KF5Service).  If it's implicit, you're depending on one of your 
> explicit dependencies including KF5::Service in its link interface anyway, in 
> which case that dependency will also pull in the KF5Service package.
>     
>     I mean, in the end it doesn't matter that much.  I'm not going to say 
> "don't ship it unless you do this".  But I think that searching for packages 
> in CMake and then not making any use of those packages in CMake (even if it 
> doesn't make any difference to whether the package is required) just clutters 
> things up unnecessarily.
> 
> Michael Palimaka wrote:
>     Sorry, I just realised I misunderstood your original comment. The final 
> product does actually link to KCompletion etc. but indeed they are not 
> explicitly marked that way. I guess for the case of KCompletion the link is 
> happening anyway because it is a public dependency of KTextWidgets.
> 
> Alex Merry wrote:
>     Yes, that's exactly it.  Sorry for not being clearer.
> 
> Michael Palimaka wrote:
>     So, should the explicit link be added, or just forget about it for now? 
> :-)

I would prefer it if you either added explicit links or removed the 
find_package calls I highlighted, but if you would rather not, I'm still 
willing to give a ship it.


- Alex


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On Feb. 18, 2014, 8:01 a.m., Michael Palimaka wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 18, 2014, 8:01 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark.
> 
> 
> Repository: khtml
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> - QtTest is only required for autotests
> - QtX11Extras is only required for X11 builds, and for tests
> - Remove KCrash, KDBusAddons, KGuiAddons, KInit, and KItemViews as they are 
> not used
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   CMakeLists.txt 3a3dbab90e6572cf953ba5edc1fcb60a7e30b493 
>   autotests/CMakeLists.txt 33f1ecb7ba65f223baef242eb21cd34457b020da 
>   tests/CMakeLists.txt 8fc438fa932ec43492b6c2a8e5bc8f0337550d1a 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115863/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Builds. Tests pass.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael Palimaka
> 
>

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