Question on what to do with optional module

[Josef Whiter]

Hello,

A package that I maintain, geany, can use vte in order to have a 
terminal in the editor.  Now geany loads it by using the equivalent of 
dl_open() on the library and then loading the symbols manually.  I 
recently patched geany to link in vte so it did not do this and then 
submitted it upstream.  Upstream rejected the patch, stating that they 
do not want geany to be dependent upon libvte, hence the dl_open() 
method of loading libvte, and that I shouldn't need vte-devel during the 
building of geany as its not required at build time, its optional at 
runtime.  So my question is this, should I leave the package as it is 
now, where it compiles in vte support, or should I remove vte-devel from 
the BuildRequires, fix geany so it will load fedora's libvte it ships 
with the vte package and make vte a Require?  Geany will run perfectly 
fine without vte, so I'm wondering what the appropriate course of action 
would be for this situation.  Thank you,

Josef