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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] KDE live ebuilds and the kdeprefix USE flag default
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:16:21
Message-Id: 49613528.9070303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] KDE live ebuilds and the kdeprefix USE flag default by "Marcus D. Hanwell"
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4 Hi.
5
6 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
7 > Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
8 >> On Воскресенье 04 января 2009 20:14:57 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
9 >>
10 >>> Hi,
11 >>>
12 >>> I wanted to raise this, and it should possibly be an issue we discuss at
13 >>> the next meeting. Should all live ebuilds default to +kdeprefix?
14 >>>
15 >>> Personally I think they should. Anyone wanting an all -kdeprefix system
16 >>> can set -kdeprefix in their make.conf, and those of us keeping a stable
17 >>> in -kdeprefix, and a live in +kdeprefix can continue to do this.
18 >>>
19 >>> When I originally committed the eclass changes to the default for live
20 >>> ebuilds this was the case. It was since changed without any discussion.
21 >>> I think the previous behaviour represents the most flexible approach for
22 >>> our user and development community.
23 >>>
24 >>> Is there a flaw in this logic? As far as I can see anyone wanting the
25 >>> current behaviour can add a line to their make.conf, the old behaviour
26 >>> is impossible to reproduce now without maintaining a patched
27 >>> kde4-base.eclass.
28 >>>
29 >>> Thanks,
30 >>>
31 >>> Marcus
32 >>>
33 >> Personaly I think that all kde-base live ebuilds should be in +kdeprefix while
34 >> misc packages susch as amarok and so on could be both +kdeprefix and - kdeprefix
35 >> Also I think that misc packages could be installed with snapshots or even
36 >> stable kde
37 >>
38 > You didn't address the main question I was posing - should live ebuilds
39 > of misc packages default to +kdeprefix? I think they should and see no
40 > reason for not doing this. It allows people to maintain a live/stable
41 > system using -/+kdeprefix respectively if they want to. If they want
42 > everything installed in /usr they can explicitly set -kdeprefix.
43
44 I agree with cryos that all live ebuilds should be +kdeprefix. For all
45 those that think otherwise, I would like to hear how you plan to handle
46 the collisions with non-live ebuilds.
47
48 > You bring up several other points but I am not sure they all need
49 > considering at the same time...
50 >
51 > Thanks,
52 >
53 > Marcus
54 >
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57 Regards,
58
59 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
60 Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
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