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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Gareth Clay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm in the middle of a general spring-clean / overhaul of the kde section, and
> I want to ask for your opinions on the CVS kde spells we have in there
> (kde/CVS directory within the grimoire).
>
> Currently we have our normal kde spells which can be configured when casting
> to install either the current stable version (3.3.2) or the current
> development version (updating the spells to 3.4 beta 2 is on my todo list for
> this weekend). We also have a whole set of duplicate spells for installing
> the main kde components from CVS.
>
> I'm not particularly happy with this setup - I don't like the duplication. The
> spells don't seem to have been maintained in quite a while (they're targeting
> the 3.2 branch, but stable is on 3.3 and no one has complained on bugzilla).
> On top of that, I'm not convinced of the need for these spells. We don't
> provide CVS spells for gnome, for example. I would have thought that the
> place for CVS spells is for those apps that people really want but for which
> there are no tarballs, usually because no official release has been made yet.
> We already provide for the development version of kde in the normal kde
> spells.
>
> So, my question is - do you want these spells? Does anyone even use them?
> Should they be removed? I won't remove anything that people definitely want,
> but if it turns out that you *do* want the ability to cast kde from CVS I
> might try to integrate the spells a little better so there is only one spell
> for each kde component which lets you cast either the stable, devel or CVS
> version.
>
> All feedback is appreciated :)
>
> Cheers,
> Gareth

I certainly won't complain if they're removed, but perhaps move their
function into the current KDE spells (with a CVS checkout from HEAD)?

-sandalle

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