>My concern is that tqca-tls may compile but not actually *work* in
>the absence of tqca.  Plugins can be really weird in how they link
>stuff together.  Also, kopete seems to have a direct tqca dependency
>for some protocols (jabber and groupwise, judging from what
>Darrell found).  We need to test not just the compiling, but the
>functionality of these packages before we can justify dropping tqca.

I see your point. If tqca-tls requires tqca for working correctly, then we will need to make it dependent on tqca for installation.
Any way we could make a test for it? (I am no tqca expert at all :( )

  Michele