Best practice to depend on KDE libs for build

[egerlach]

I'm trying to build kwin-minimize2tray to take it for a spin. It depends on KPackage from the KDE Framework. With a mutable distro, I would just dnf install kf6-kpackage-devel and be on my way. On Aurora, I don't know what the right move is.

• Do I layer it on with rpm-ostree?
• Is there some way of installing it in ~/.local?
• Should I be doing my build in a distrobox/devcontainer?
• I can't imagine that brew is the right answer, but ¯\(ツ)/¯

[renner0e]

Do I layer it on with rpm-ostree?

No, this is a perfect usecase for containers. Sooner or later you would stop receiving updates and you would have to manually remove it again to receive updates again. I recommend you use a fedora distrobox to compile software

Is there some way of installing it in ~/.local?

they also made a script which just does that, so use that script, installing in ~/.local for your user not only is a good practice because if it breaks and you can't login, you at least could make another user where it is still completely functional as you didn't write to /usr where it would have broken every user

I can't imagine that brew is the right answer, but ¯(ツ)/¯

brew is kinda jank for compiling software in my experience

[egerlach]

Do I layer it on with rpm-ostree?

No, this is a perfect usecase for containers. Sooner or later you would stop receiving updates and you would have to manually remove it again to receive updates again. I recommend you use a fedora distrobox to compile software

Thanks, this is what I was leaning towards.

Is there some way of installing it in ~/.local?

they also made a script which just does that, so use that script, installing in ~/.local for your user only is a good practice because if it breaks and you can't login you at least could make another user where it is still completely functional as you didn't write to /usr where it would have broken every user

Was more thinking about whether there was a way to install the deps on a per-user basis, not the plugin itself. That's moot now, though.