On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Frank Schaefer <fschaefer....@googlemail.com > wrote:
> 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. > I already had libv4l2 before i tried to build kdenetwork. I am not wining, i am quite capable of hacking it and running it on my own system. I was wondering if others may be having similar kind of problem. If you think this commit is perfect, then congratulations. I don't have any problems. > > Frank >
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