kaushik schrieb: > Is it a good idea to make it compulsory? No it is not, we are stupid idiots, not knowing what we are doing... And we're having fun bothering people with unnecessary libraries !
Damn, I would really like to forward these complaints to the LKML... > I tried building kdenetwork today and it failed, because of the > required dependency libv4l2. > I dont have a webcam and i dont see a reason why i should install libv4l2. > I assume there are many other users as well who probably may not have > webcam as well. Whether YOU have a webcam/YOU are using the video-conferencing-feature or not is irrelevant. Video-support is part of the Kopete software and the only way to guarantee that it works with ALL devices is using libv4l. So stop whining, install libv4l and everything is fine. > I am not against it, but I think, it better should be optional rather > than compulsory, what are you views ? Did you read the commit message ? See mailinglist-archieve Jan/Feb 2010. Frank _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
