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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Questions about splitting kdebase into a plethora of packages
From:       "Malte S. Stretz" <msquadrat.nospamplease () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-02-10 18:13:25
Message-ID: 200502101913.25973 () malte ! stretz ! eu ! org
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 18:00 CET Lokheed wrote:
> Thanks will do some reading. Thats an even worse worry now that if I do
> come across a bug, I dont get support from KDE and will have to rely on
> Gentoo alone [...]

Ummm... sorry, I think you misread what I wrote.  Of course you will still 
get "support" from the KDE folks as before.  That means, you can ask on the 
KDE mailinglists and file bugs.  The latter can of course be caused by the 
split packages in which case you will be sent downstream to report the bug 
to the Gentoo folks.  (Or you might first file it via b.g.o and get sent 
upstream if they think its actually a KDE bug.)

Maybe I should mention that I'm a big fan of the split packages because as 
soon as the confcache went into portage, it will actually safe me oodles of 
time recompiling parts of KDE (I normally used a hacked up version of the 
Live-CVS ebuilds with which I can keep up-to-date to the latest version of 
the stable branch).

Cheers,
Malte

> as they will only support the split version because 
> apparently its too hard to maintain ONE extra ebuild but not enough work
> to maintain 300+...I think I missed a meeting somewhere ;)
>
> Thanks again Malte.
>
> Lokheed
>
> Malte S. Stretz wrote:
> >On Thursday 10 February 2005 00:14 CET Lokheed wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>I would really like the opinion of the KDE devs on whether this is a
> >>sound practise or even a sound decision. [...]
> >
> >This has already been discussed to death before, like here [1].  The
> >conclusion:  Everybody, including the core devs, got his own opinion, as
> >always.  It's up to the distributor to decide wether they want to split
> > KDE or not (almost everbody already does it to some degree) --
> > complaining to the KDE devs won't help if you have problems with your
> > distributor's decisions.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Malte
> >
> >[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/18283
> >
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