Bug 365641

Summary:	kio has a runtime dependency on kinit (circular dependency)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	G360 <kde-bugs.9ek5t>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description G360 2016-07-14 01:19:59 UTC

It seems kio has a runtime dependency on kinit (for klauncher), which is odd, because kinit depends on kio, so there is a circular dependency.

Original from here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49249

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 David Faure 2016-07-14 13:43:06 UTC

Since it's a *runtime* dependency and not a compile time dependency, it's not a problem.

It's typical of any runtime dependency, we had that with kde-runtime for all of the KDE4 time frame, for instance. kde-runtime had a compile-time dependency on kdelibs4, and kdelibs4 had a runtime dependency on kde-runtime (which provided a number of executables used by kdelibs4).

So you need kio to compile kinit, and then you install both, and then it all works.

I'm not sure what this means in terms of packaging though. Installing either one should install the other as well. I suppose one could say we should merge them then, but having them separated makes it possible to *one day* remove some dependencies.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-05-08 17:04:57 UTC

Sounds like this isn't really a problem.