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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    PROPOSAL (Re: kdesupport: let's get rid of it, now.)
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2001-05-30 15:33:55
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:05:09PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> I guess we could solve this by saying that kdesupport is for SOURCE users
> only, and that packagers should grab the original things, and *never*
> package kdesupport itself.
>
> Well, that's just like qt-copy. For source user's convenience only, not
> for packaging. I vote for going that way then. Ok for adding new libs to
> kdesupport, but forbidden to package them ;)

Nice summary and I agree.

My proposal:

We should change kdesupport in such a way that it only contains a README and
the source tarballs (perhaps extracted) and _no_ Makefile.cvs and all that
crap.

kdesupport is _not_ to be compiled as a whole, it's a container for these
packages only. Alternatively, we keep them all in one location on the FTP
servers. I think most of us agree that we should remove
kdesupport-the-compilable-module but we want to continue providing the
sources of packages we depend on.

I will change the configure.in.bot's messages to phrase something like this:

You do not have package X installed. It is required because it is used for
[task]. Please install X before continuing KDE compilation. If your
distribution does not provide a binary package for X then you can download
it from [homepage] and compile it yourself. The kdesupport package/ftpdir
provides a copy of the source tarballs of most packages for convenience.

Rob
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