Re: [gentoo-desktop] KDE live ebuilds and the kdeprefix USE flag default

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
> On Воскресенье 04 января 2009 20:14:57 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to raise this, and it should possibly be an issue we discuss at
>> the next meeting. Should all live ebuilds default to +kdeprefix?
>>
>> Personally I think they should. Anyone wanting an all -kdeprefix system
>> can set -kdeprefix in their make.conf, and those of us keeping a stable
>> in -kdeprefix, and a live in +kdeprefix can continue to do this.
>>
>> When I originally committed the eclass changes to the default for live
>> ebuilds this was the case. It was since changed without any discussion.
>> I think the previous behaviour represents the most flexible approach for
>> our user and development community.
>>
>> Is there a flaw in this logic? As far as I can see anyone wanting the
>> current behaviour can add a line to their make.conf, the old behaviour
>> is impossible to reproduce now without maintaining a patched
>> kde4-base.eclass.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcus
>>
> Personaly I think that all kde-base live ebuilds should be in +kdeprefix while
> misc packages susch as amarok and so on could be both +kdeprefix and - kdeprefix
> Also I think that misc packages could be installed with snapshots or even
> stable kde
>
You didn't address the main question I was posing - should live ebuilds
of misc packages default to +kdeprefix? I think they should and see no
reason for not doing this. It allows people to maintain a live/stable
system using -/+kdeprefix respectively if they want to. If they want
everything installed in /usr they can explicitly set -kdeprefix.

You bring up several other points but I am not sure they all need
considering at the same time...

Thanks,

Marcus