From: "Andraž \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Matthew Clark (7db1e56806c20ab76edc88867d6bb7b30aba00d1)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:44:26 +0200
Eric Sandall wrote :
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> Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
> >
> > I haven't used KDE in years so I'm not sure how relevant that is to the
> > current topic, but it's something to keep in mind.
>
> Perhaps do as we have with xorg and xorg-modular, where the user can use
> either the upstream blobs for kdebase, kdelibs, etc. /or/ they can use
> the split konqueror, kmail, etc. packages, which might make a bit of
> mess with CONFLICTS and DEPENDS, but should allow for the most choice.
>
> -sandalle
>
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>
Erm xorg-modular deprecates xorg or it will... It's not how we do it
it's upstream.
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