On 24-04-2015 17:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> At the moment we have two packages in the book which recommend
>> OpenLDAP, and in general people who do not build recommended deps
>> tend to get told to do so if they have problems.  Sometimes a
>> recommendation is there because you will have to set other configure
>> switches if the package is missing, others because we generally
>> follow upstream, and a last batch are to provide useful features.
>>
>> In this case, OpenLDAP is recommended by libreoffice and kdepimlibs.
>>
>> For libreoffice, the general note says: Most of these packages are
>> recommended because if they're not installed, the build process will
>> compile and install its own (often older) version.
>>
>> That is true, as far as it goes, but I feel bad about recommending
>> this package when for many people it will provide nothing useful in
>> libreoffice.  In this case, I do not see what problems can arise
>> from an old version if you are _not_ connecting to an LDAP server ?
>> So, I would like to add '(if connecting to an LDAP server)' to this
>> one recommendation.
> 
> OK.
> 
>> For kdepimlibs, the situation is slightly different - the package
>> builds ok with out it, but cmake mentions that a recommended
>> dependency is missing.  I suppose that whoever maintains this uses
>> OpenLDAP in a commercial system.  Again, I would like to add '(if
>> connecting to an LDAP server)' to this recommendation.
> 
> OK.
> 
>> I've always been happy to use the shipped version from libreoffice,
>> and I've now built the current and previous versions of kdepimlibs
>> without OpenLDAP.  But on the other hand, I don't use or build any
>> of the kdepim programs.
>>
>> Does anybody have strong feelings either way, or see a potential
>> vulnerability flaw, or inadequacy in kdepim, in my suggestion ?
> 
> I have no issues with the proposed changes.

+1


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