Bug 334595

Summary:	Cannot build package without Baloo
Product:	[Applications] kdepimlibs	Reporter:	ash <narutoplasma14>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.13
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description ash 2014-05-11 01:08:29 UTC

The code cannot be compiled while skipping baloo support, to allow it to run on a system without baloo installed

The baloo part should be made possible to remove automatically by the config or by a DCMAKE flag


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile code

Actual Results:  
-- The following REQUIRED packages have not been found:

 * Baloo (required version >= 4.13.0) , The Baloo libraries , <http://www.kde.org>
   Baloo provides search capabilities in KMail and Akonadi

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FeatureSummary.cmake:430 (message):
  feature_summary() Error: REQUIRED package(s) are missing, aborting CMake
  run.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:339 (feature_summary)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/ash/system/kdepim-libkdepim/src/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/ash/system/kdepim-libkdepim/src/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...


Expected Results:  
Able to compile without depending on baloo

Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2014-05-11 08:01:13 UTC

This is not a bug.

Comment 2 ash 2014-05-11 21:26:26 UTC

This is one.

Baloo is not an essential component for the functionality of most of KDEPIM. It is merely an indexing service used in few places like email content/metadata search

For users who dont need the semantic search capabilities, this is an unneeded dependency

In such cases it is common and good approach to leave the dependency as optional. No Baloo, no semantic search capabilities, This can be autodetected at configure time by the scripts or set manually with a DCMAKE flag

With baloo specifically, there are a few users (willing to compile their own packages) asking around the net to be able to build a baloo-independent system. This is asking to be turned into an optional dependency

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2014-05-12 05:07:17 UTC

no it's not a bug
so I re-close it
you can re-open it but we will re close it as invalid