Why do Mutate deb package depend fcitx? about mutate HOT 5 CLOSED

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Hmm. It's even weird so many "-dev" packages are needed. Quite simply zero of those should be needed. I think the Debian package is very wrong.

Ohh! Reading the package, it is indeed very weirdly done. It's using qmake and make so that it can run "make install" at the end. This is not how packaging should be done. Everything should be provided in the correct folder from the start, not exploded from the postinstall like it's currently done.

I think it's best not to use this package at all before this is fixed. It will mess up the system more than just doing a manual install of make install. :)

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Hey, wait a sec, fcitx isn't actually used anywhere in the code. It's only a dep because qdore uses it for input on his machine and thought to include it as a dep.

From what the ArchWiki says, users who want to use fcitx as an input method only need to install fcitx-qt5 (probably different package on other distros) and fcitx will work in any qt5 program. So I'll remove it.

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Thanks @codeThatThinks and Good job 😄

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I think this problem isn't solved, when i want to install it from the ppa, it says that it needs fcitx package

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