Bug#1000660: TKIVtk library missing

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:15:32 +0100 Yuri D'Elia <wavexx at thregr.org>
>wrote:
>> libocct-visualization is supposed to include TKIVtk, but in reality
>it doesnt.
>
>Can you describe your use case a bit?
>
>Otherwise, this is on purpose. See #978017 for rationale.

I didn't get any message from the BTS, so I only saw this by pure chance
now.

Anyway, I was trying to compile OCP from cadquery, which does require
TKIVtk. I was able to exclude this part from by modifying the sources
and get along, so you can say I was partially successful, but if a
regular user was supposed to build the package it would have just
failed.

I agree with #978017 and I'm quite happy about the solution for the
dependent packages (also using kicad myself, so the space savings are
quite welcome), but this solution breaks part of OCCT. If I would have
needed to have it then I would also have to build OCCT from sources,
which is.. more than annoying.

>I'm not sure if Kurt has thought of an solution yet and also did not
>look into it if it is e.g feasible to put it into its own package.

Splitting this into a separate package would make a lot of sense IMHO.
Looks like both headers and libraries are separate, so it should be
technically possible?