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