On Saturday 10 June 2006 14:05, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Note that khtml's libthai integration isn't really new - it's been > there since late 2004. However, we've only had a libthai port in > FreeBSD for 2 months and I was made aware of it (and the benefit it > has for khtml) roughly about the same time. Another example of KDE > using an external package in order to achieve some specific language > support is Kspell2 (also in kdelibs), which requires hspell in order > to support proper hebrew spell checking. However, FreeBSD's hspell > port is not up-to-date enough, otherwise we would depend on it.
But why is it a requirement instead of an option? By being a requirement, one is saying that KDE will not work without it. But KDE has obviously been working without since late 2004. Ditto for hspell. Surely this can be made into a knob, even if it has to be on be default of political reasons. -- David Johnson _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
