On Friday 18 January 2008, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:06:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Roll on KDE4 when this monolithic nonsense will go away and there > > will only be -meta ebuilds. > > Actually it was decided to keep monolithics in KDE 4.0.0. Splits are > now the default which means they are listed first in any-of > dependency blocks such as e.g. || ( kde-base/kompare:kde-4 > kde-base/kdesdk:kde-4 ) in KDE 4. But monos are still around. There > is a list of the monos in the url I posted in another mail to this > thread.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Obviously my most current info is out of date. But why was that decision taken? I understand keeping it for kde-3.5.x users, but kde-4 is essentially an entirely different product, and the -meta ebuilds do everything the monolithic ones ever did. The configure steps do add time though, but other than that everything seems to work the same -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
