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Subject:    [Kde-maemo] which to "optify" (is: KDE packaging for Maemo)
From:       menard () kde ! org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alexis_M=E9nard?=)
Date:       2010-02-01 9:10:09
Message-ID: 81941aea1002010110o58bd09fbt7a2434bce5d1b282 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/2/1 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 09:05:59 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>> Am Montag, 25. Januar 2010 19:09:34 schrieb Kevin Ottens:
>> I think we should be ready to put many of them to /opt, because the list of
>> dependencies will grow and in a typical N900 installation there will be
>> other packages that occupy '/'.
>
> Well, mainly the Nokia provided packages indeed. AFAIK they push hard for
> third parties to install in /opt.
>
> Still, my worry there would be the proliferation of prefixes (/opt/foo,
> /opt/bar), with all the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH overhead it'll generate (I'm
> also thinking about third party developers there who would need to add each
> path by hand because of the rpath issue). So we probably need to have a good
> strategy there to limit the number of such prefixes.
>
> I think we could aim at something like this:
> ?- /opt/qt4-maemo5, which is current prefix for Qt 4.6

This will change when the final release will be out. The next big
firmware update will probably put it in the usual path.

> ?- /opt/kde4-extras-deps, for all the dependencies listed as dependencies
> needed for the KDE platform on the wiki, of course excluding qt4-maemo5
> ?- /opt/kde4, for all things KDE related up to kdesupport
>
> For the second prefix we might want to have a couple of exceptions, I'm mainly
> thinking about mysql and shared-mime-info (once we figured out what to do with
> this one) there. I'd expect this number to be low.
>
>> Ideally we would not occupy space on '/'.
>
> Except for packages which are interacting "deeply" with the maemo system. But
> indeed so far apart from maybe shared-mime-info I don't see much
> opportunities.
>
>> The expectation of a typical N900 user will be that she can install other
>> packages to their liking and still get Kontact on N900 installed and
>> started. (Most people will think 30Gibibyte of space on the device as one
>> block.)
>
> Sure, note that in my initial view on the matter I was thinking only about the
> kde platform dependencies to not be optified, with the only exception of mysql
> and virtuoso which can be somewhat large (although we can still try to
> downsize virtuoso more) as they can be reused by some other components. Qt and
> KDE for sure need to be optified.
>
> Regards.
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