[Tex/LaTex] Can the package “caption” be used with KOMAScript classes

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Is the LaTeX package caption compatible with KOMA-Script classes like scrreprt?

(I did not find anything about that in the KOMA-Script manual, but as KOMA-Script redefines a lot for the floats and captions, I wonder if there might be problems.)

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See section 5.4 of the caption manual for an overview of the interplay between KOMA-script and caption. Quoting the "Side effects":

The optional argument of \setcapwidth is not supported and will be ignored if used in conjunction with the caption package. Furthermore the KOMA-Script options tablecaptionabove & tablecaptionbelow and the commands \captionabove & \captionbelow are stronger than the position= setting offered by the caption package.

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[Tex/LaTex] not use the KOMA-Script classes

I can think only of two reason not to use the KOMA-classes:

That you have a deadline and do not have the time to handle the problems involved with switching to another class.
That someone requires that you use another class (e.g. via a template).

[Tex/LaTex] What packages are incompatible with KOMA-Script

Markus Kohm, the author of KOMA-Script (see his initials), utters about this frequently, but unluckily for TeX.SE usually in German.

Also I would prefer to say, some packages are not fully compatible instead of they are incompatible, because in most cases they work partially and often there’s a workaround.

Every package, that makes a redefinition of titling and heading, is potentially not fully compatible. A well-known example is titlesec, where here on TeX.SE we have already a related question: Incompatibilities between KOMA-Script and titlesec.
Also packages with a heavy redefinition of footnote related stuff are potentially not fully compatible. I myself noticed, that footnotebackref only works with an active symbol (the footnote number is not turned into an active link, confer package manual).
By the way: This works fine:
```
\usepackage[symbol=${}^{\scriptscriptstyle\uparrow}$]{footnotebackref}% needs "hyperref"
```
The caption package is according to its package documentation not fully compatible. But actually this was quite more serious in older versions both of caption and KOMA-Script (see also comment below of caption author Axel Sommerfeldt).
Package minitoc changes \@sect and so breaks quite a number of KOMA-adaptions to section.
Packages tocloft, titletoc and tocbibind also are not fully compatible with KOMA-script.

As old scrpage2 or new scrlayer-scrpage is part of KOMA-Script (but is a package and can be used with other classes!):

Package xwatermark relies on fancyhdr, so with scrpage2/scrlayer-scrpage you will get error messages.

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