RE: [gentoo-dev] Split KDE packages?

[Riyad Kalla]

I have read that Debian currently supports the breaking apart of KDE's
packages like this, any ideas how they manage it with apt-get?

sidenote: from what I undertsand, it takes an eternity to get things
into Debian's software repository, would this subsequently increase the
time it took to get new releases of KDE into portage?

note: I have never used debian, I am sure the above statement is
inaccurate at best, this is only a concern gathered from the forums.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dylan Carlson [mailto:absinthe@×××××.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:30 AM
> To: danarmak@g.o; gentoo-dev@g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split KDE packages?
>
>
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:15 am, Dan Armak wrote:
> >
> > It is not a problem to make an ebuild compile a subset of all
> > available subpackages. <snip>
> >
> > Now the best solution IMHO would be to implement 'subpackages' as i
> > described before. An ebuild could then divide the files it installs
> > into a number of 'subpackages'. If the user requested
> merging certain
> > subpackages, the ebuild would (should) be smart enough to take only
> > the minimal action required to compile those subpackages.
> And if the
> > user requested everything (as in an ordinary emerge command), the
> > ebuild would be smart enough not to repeat actions (ie not to run
> > configure more than once).
> >
>
> Thanks Dan.
>
> In the event of a patch of one of the subpackages, you would
> still need to
> recompile all of the subpackages you want again (instead of
> just the one
> that has been patched).  Is that a correct assumption?
>
> Cheers,
> Dylan Carlson [absinthe@×××××.com]
>
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