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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:09:36 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, Peter wrote: |
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>> THAT is a very reasonable comment! |
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> Not at all. "Meta ebuilds" are a provisional and fugly workaround as long as |
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> we have to wait for proper sets and only to be used for a larger set of |
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> packages. Wrapping three or four ebuilds with another one, just for the sake |
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> of lazy people having only to emerge a single ebuild is ridiculous. The only |
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> valid point in the original idea to merge the nvidia-* packages is to reduce |
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> the overall number of packages in the repository. As you heard the voices |
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> against it, ranging from none to valid reasons, everything left is to bury |
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> the idea and to close the bug. |
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> Carsten |
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Would you please add the comments to the bug report? Or, may I copy them? |
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Please advise. |
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Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against this |
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concept are devs, and the only people for it are users. Remember that |
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users are your customers. Every effort should be made to keep them happy. |
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If you are against meta ebuilds, what is your opinion on KDE? Instead on 9 |
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(or so) packages, there are now over 250! Are 250 separate ebuilds better? |
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I cannot think of another distro that slices up KDE that way. Meta |
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ebuilds at least allow the user the ability to opt out of trying to |
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decide which ebuilds to emerge! |
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I always used to use CVS to update my KDE source tree, then compile only |
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the changed modules. I could have a whole updated KDE inside an hour. Now |
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that is performance! |
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Here, with the unified nvidia, the intent was to REDUCE ebuilds and |
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simplify installation process. I thought the recommendation of a meta |
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nvidia ebuild is a worthy one worth consideration. |
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IMHO sometimes the desire to fine tune things and optimize things goes a |
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little over the edge. nVidia upstream combines all the products together |
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in their .run files. There is minimal time difference between having the |
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entire suite installed versus each one individually. And, from a user's |
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point of view, what could be simpler? |
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Anyway, I appreciate your feedback. |
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