From kde-core-devel Thu Dec 25 11:24:50 2008 From: "Mark Kretschmann" Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:24:50 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: what packages do we want distros to ship ? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=123020433532315 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > since I'm doing the build stuff I'm getting in contact with packagers from > distributions and their wishes. > One thing which I don't know what the current state is, is what type of KDE > packages do we want distributions to ship ? > We have the "modules" kdelibs, kdebase, kdepim etc. These are quite > corse-grained. > E.g. Slackware ships them that way, so you get a package kdebase.tar.gz etc.# > > E.g. Gentoo is on the other end, they modify the buildsystem so that they can > ship everything as a single package. E.g they'd like to have a separate > package for each library in kdebase/workspace/. > > Now, we could say, it's up to them, we don't care. > But that wouldn't be good. It would be better if we support what we want them > to ship, so they have to do less (or no) modifications and we know what will > be shipped to our users. > Also making more fine-grained packages than whole-module-one-package can be > made easier for them if we consider this when writing the CMakeLists.txt. > (e.g. by keeping in mind that CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and CMAKE_BINARY_DIR are > different when building a whole module instead of independent, by making > configure tests local to the application, etc.). > > So, what do we expect what will be shipped ? > > My guess is that it's somewhere in between, e.g. whole kdelibs, whole > kdepimlibs, whole kdebase/workspace libs, but separate e.g. kontact, kate, > kwin, kmail etc. With Amarok 2 we've made it so that you can (in fact you must!) build it from the extragear/multimedia/amarok directory, as opposed to building it from the extragear/multimedia directory. We figured that extragear applications are really separate entities and most people aren't interested in building the whole shebang, when they really just want one specific app. -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org