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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Add flags to kdemultimedia "configure" script.
From:       Simone Gotti <motaboy () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-01-26 21:52:58
Message-ID: 200501262250.52330.motaboy () gentoo ! org
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On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:48, Lauri Watts wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01.10, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:36, Simone Gotti wrote:
> > > Hi to All,
> > >
> > > Here in gentoo an user can choose (using the USE flags) which features
> > > of a program he wants to enable.
> > >
> > > A lot of parts of kde (for example the "akode" library) checks for
> > > various programs/libs present on the system and then enable specific
> > > code for them.
> >
> > You are supposed to only install the parts you want. This is usually the
> > job of the packager. For instance you install juk by only running make
> > install under juk. For aKode the idea is the same with the plugins. They
> > can all be installed separatly. Not that I dislike your patch, it can be
> > usefull for developers using cvs, but a packager or user shouldn't use
> > that.
>
> For source based builds, including konstruct, gentoo, or any of the BSD's,
> things can't work that way.  If they're only intended to be built
> separately, then we either need them in separate tarballs, or we need
> switches to be able to disable them in chunks as required.
>
> Sure it's possible to chunk things up, and we do, to a point, but
> kdemultimedia sure doesn't make it easy.   I would like to see this patch
> committed.

So is ok if I commit it? If I don't hear nothing I'll commit it tomorrow.

Bye!
-- 
Simone Gotti - Gentoo Developer
<motaboy@gentoo.org>
http://kde-bluetooth.sf.net

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