Sorry, scim is not updated in upstream for a long time, and has some problems with gtk3.

Troy,

Can it be possible for you to include what made you to request packages in EPEL8?

Thank you

KDE is going to be in EPEL 8.
scim is needed to build plasma-desktop.
If you were planning on retiring the package from Fedora, then we should have a conversation with the Fedora KDE team to see if we can get it out of plasma-desktop.

I already have scim built in EPEL8-playground.

If you feel it's not ok for general EPEL, but just for KDE, I can do that.  We are going to need to release KDE as a module (due to QT5 being in RHEL8), so it's possible for me to have it just in that module.  You wouldn't even need to be the EPEL maintainer if we did that.  Those packages are going to be the latest stable packages from Fedora.  So if you maintain it in Fedora, that work will automatically be pulled in.

Please consider to switch to ibus, thanks!

If you want to switch input method, maybe imsettings is also needed.

I guess scim is an optional build requires for KDE plasma-desktop.

Could you ask KDE maintainers to disable scim support when build for EPEL 8?

If you just build scim package for KDE, the scim is not usable.
I suggest to disable scim for KDE plasma-desktop in EPEL 8.

The problem is that scim has several packages to be built,
not just only one package.

just for heads-up. imsettings is on testing for EPEL8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-366e149d04

It looks like ibus is the default, and scim is an optional sub-package build.
I will work with the main plasma-desktop maintainer to have this not build in RHEL8.

Thanks for the efforts!

I have updated the appropriate spec files so that for EPEL8/RHEL packages, they do not need scim, even if we take the latest Fedora specs..
Thus, I am closing this as won't fix.
Thanks for you help.