[Development] Removing libudev dependency from binary packages?

[Koehne Kai]

Hi there,

In the latest Linux binary packages for 5.2 libQt5Webkit depends on libudev.so.0, which isn't installed (or at least not in this version) on a lot of distributions:

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34176 

The easiest fix would be to configure Qt with -no-libudev / remove libudev headers etc from the build machines. Anyhow, it seems also other Qt modules use it if it's available, namely Qt5SerialPort, libqgtk2, libqevdevtableplugin, libqevdevtouchplugin.so, libqevdevkeyboardplugin.so, libqevdevmouseplugin.so, libqevdevtabletplugin.so .

Can anyone in the knowing clarify how important libudev is for them? What will break if we don't link against libudev anywhere (like we did with 5.1.1)?

Regards

Kai

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