[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 123595] Do not default to KDE5 VCL plugins under LXQt

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123595

--- Comment #4 from Chih-Hsuan Yen <yen at chyen.cc> ---
Sorry for the late response, I was busy on other projects the past two weeks.

> Did that actually just start with the new LibreOffice version 6.2.1 and was not the case with the earlier version 6.2.0.3 that this bug report was initially created against? I'm not aware of any relevant change that may have changed that, but if that actually changed, one might have a look at what was the cause for this.

You're right. It's not a regression but an issue in both 6.2.0.3 and 6.2.1. In
both versions /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_kde5lo.so links to
libKF5KIOFileWidgets.so.5, and I got errors when opening or saving files.

> Is there any problem with installing the linked kio libraries for this scenario (even though they're not used at run time)?

It's fine to install them for myself, but maybe not for others. As a LXQt
developer, I need to make sure the default configuration of LibreOffice works
fine for almost all LXQt users.

> If needed, I'd usually expect that distro packages whould have it as a dependency, and e.g. Debian packages behave that way [1], so the problem you describe wouldn't occur there.
> Like the name suggests, the "kde5" VCL plugin is primarily targeted at providing good integration into kde5, so without further knowledge, I'm not sure whether it's actually a bug it requires kf5 libraries. But I totally see your point it's somewhat unfortunate they're required when they're not even used at run time.

The packaging philosophy of Arch Linux is somewhat different the Debian one. On
Arch Linux, there's only one `libreoffice-fresh` package, which includes the
kde5 VCL plugin as it's enabled at the compile time, and `kio` is just an
optional dependency as it's not required to run libreoffice on other desktop
environments. I don't think Arch Linux maintainers will move `kio` into
mandatory dependencies if they don't want complaints from users of GNOME or
MATE.

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