On 1/24/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now what do we do?  Change configure so it doesn't make an unnecessary
> check for a package it doesn't need?

Report upstream.

>  That's a developer function, not
> ours.  Tell the user it is optional and let the warning shout that it
> needs it?

Yep. Lot of pacakges give out warnings. BTW, does it even link against
libjpeg or is it just a configure check?

>
> According to kde, libjpeg is *recommended* for kdelibs, kdebase,
> kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, and koffice.  The easiest thing to do is to
> just put it in aRts and keep configure quiet.  It is recommended and
> used in the next package (kdelibs) anyway.

What if the user is just installing arts but not kde?

>
> The BLFS Book has the definition: "Recommended means that BLFS strongly
> suggests this package is installed first for a clean and trouble-free
> build, that won't have issues either during the build process, or at
> run-time."

That is the problem I have with the recommended. First it is the
package maintainers that recommend a pacakge. On top of it we add our
bloat^H^H^H^H^Hrecommendations:)

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