Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: KDE 'child' packages (separate ebuilds for konqueror kmail etc.)

[Justin Lambert]

I would love to have seperate ebuilds for the parts of KDE, many of the 
packages I compile are for only one program.

On Monday 13 May 2002 12:36 pm, Dan Armak wrote:
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> On Monday 13 May 2002 14:18, Eric Noack wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > During the last week I've been working on separating the > kde-base/*
> > > packages into 'child' packages, a feature requested by some > people.
> > > For example, instead of kdenetwork we'd have separate kmail, > knode,
> > > kppp etc. ebuilds. The actual eclass framework to do this is > ready.
> > > ...
> >
> > As a Gentoo user my humble opinion is that being able to install single
> > parts of things like KDE is much more important than compile-time.
> > Specially huge packages like KDE which takes real long time to compile
> > anyway are things one would probably compile "over-night" if one wants
> > the whole package, so additional 1 or 2 hours wont count. And if one
> > doesnt want to install the whole thing, one would be glad to be able to
> > choose what to install and what not.
> >
> > Make it so, and keep up the good work. :-)
>
> It wouldn't be another hour or two. More like another four. Which is a lot,
> and not everyone compiles kde by night.
>
> This seems like a case where the benefits and problems of a new feature are
> more or less balanced. Hmmm.....
>
> - --
> Dan Armak
> Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
> Matan, Israel
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