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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Re: How to distribute kdedb plugins
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-28 20:57:17
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On Wednesday 28 March 2001 15:57, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> > > This is what actual distros do, I think...
> >
> >    And the distros are going to install Oracle, DB2, Informix, etc and
> > link KDE against them?  Somehow I doubt that....
>
> Well, that's the idea of a distro isn't it? They compile software for you
> :-)

  Ideally yes.  But that's a tall order, asking for the distro to install all 
of these commercial apps just so one of their many apps can link to it.  I 
just don't see this happening.

> > It's much better if a user can
> > easily build these without downloading all of kdelibs source.
>
> Yes, I agree with that. Instead of waiting for distros to make independent
> packages of it, I think we better do that ourselves. I guess that also
> applies to other stuff with exotic dependencies like e.g. kpilot.
>
> For our ftp-site I then suggest the following layout:
>
> <kdelibs>
> <kdebase>
> <...the other 10 base-packages...>
> i18n/<..subdirectory with all i18n-packages..>
> addons/<..subdirectory with stuff that has exotic dependencies..>
>
> And hopefully packagers can follow this same layout for rpm's and the like
> then.
 
  Yes.  That way we can put srpms there for packages that don't have binaries 
compiled by the distro.  (or .tgz or .deb....)  I would really like this.

-- 

George Staikos

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