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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:16:03PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Aug 01, Jason Flatt [jflatt AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> > Also, arturhawkwing has been working on something slightly different. 
> > He's 
> > been separating all the KDE spells into separate spells that only install 
> > a 
> > single component [0]. I've been waiting for his work to see how well it 
> > works.
> > 
> > [0] http://www.sourcemage.org/blog/306
> 
> While I get the appeal of having this and how it's in line with letting
> users have just what they want on their systems, I'm going to note that the
> flip side is that it's not generally sticking with installing upstream
> defaults.  Back when I used KDE it used to really annoy me the way distros
> would break up and repackage all the stuff because it made it hard to get
> the same thing I'd have gotten from regular tarballs, and the differences
> shifted and reliability between versions, etc.

Here's how I think it should be done to stay closest to upstream:
- programs that have regular seperate releases like kopete should get
  their own spells
- programs that are part of one of the big kde tarballs should stay in
  that spell, but become options. For spells depending on one of those
  programs, there's sub_depends.

The default for the optional programs should be to build them, to stay
in line with upstream defaults.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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