ngraham added a comment.
But there is a real reason: to adopt a new API. And compiling KF5 is trivial with kdesrc-build these days. Not to put too fine a point on it, but why should your personal convenience be more important than adopting an API that was specifically made for this use case? REPOSITORY R223 Okular REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D18658 To: ognarb, #okular, ngraham, aacid Cc: aacid, ngraham, okular-devel, tfella, darcyshen