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On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:57, Anthony Gorecki wrote: |
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> If Gentoo is committed to offering users a large degree of customizability, |
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> wouldn't segregating the various KDE components lend itself to continuing |
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> the evolution of that flexibility? I would cheer at the ability to type |
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> "emerge kmail" rather than "emerge kdepim". |
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This defnitely should go onto our FAQ if we have one. |
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Please see bug #11123 for the previous discussion on the subject. |
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This is the key paragraph quoted from there: |
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A kde configure script takes as much as a minute or more to run. Today when |
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you emerge all of kde you run ~17 configure scripts, i.e. as much as 20 |
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minutes goes there (of course everything depends on the speed of the |
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machine). If all kde-base packages are split into separate subpackage |
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ebuilds, you'll get hundreds of subpackags (200+). That means an extra 200 |
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minutes -- 3.5 hours -- added to the compilation time of all of KDE. And most |
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people do want the whole of kde. This is unacceptable |
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That said, the recent config-cache patch to portage, if accepted, could make |
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this rather painless, so now this issue is finally worth raising again. (And |
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perhaps unsermake could also help somehow?) I haven't tried it out yet |
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though, so let's have some active KDE maintainer comment ;-) |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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