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Re: Preferred packaging of kdevplatform
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2007-07-03 03:42:44
On 02.07.07 21:47:00, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 18:05, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Moving this over to kdevelop list.
> >
> > On 03.07.07 01:39:17, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 July 2007, Andreas Pakulat
wrote:
> > > > > Otherwise we will end with binary
packages for kdevplatform which
> > > > > will depend on boost. I'm sure I
don't want to see that.
> > > >
> > > > Thats wrong. The plugins of the platform
need to packaged separately
> > > > and thus only those plugin package(s)
would have a dependecy on
> > > > boost. Apart from that its (IIRC) just 2
boost libs that are
> > > > installed and I think quite some users
might have installed them
> > > > anyway.
> > >
> > > This is the first time I heard that the
platform plugins should be
> > > packaged separately. Is this documented so
packagers actually know it
> > > that this is what we want?
> >
> > No.
> >
> 
> Who said that the platform plugins would be packaged
separately?

Me, just 2 mails ago ;)

> > > I actually thought that kdevplatform is there
as it is just because
> > > everything inside there is useful - to not
say mandatory - for every
> > > application using the platform interface and
libraries. So it actually
> > > makes sense to provide one package as it is.
> >
> > See above, I'd still split it into mandatory and
optional-but-useful
> > parts.
> >
> > Andreas
> 
> We will package a single source tarball. Let the
distributions figure out how 
> they want to split the packages.

Sure, fine with me.

Andreas

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