Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am 25.02.2010 17:34, schrieb John Aldrich: > On Thursday 25 February 2010, Julian Aloofi wrote: >> >> The problem is that the KDE SIG simply doesn't have enough manpower to >> do that. They package KDE the way upstream releases it, in the big kde* >> subpackages. Other distros have subpackages for

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Julian Aloofi wrote: > > The problem is that the KDE SIG simply doesn't have enough manpower to > do that. They package KDE the way upstream releases it, in the big kde* > subpackages. Other distros have subpackages for KDE apps, but that's > simply not possible for t

Re: Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am 25.02.2010 16:32, schrieb John Aldrich: > I think we ought to think about how we package apps. Let's just have a > "base" app that includes the required subsystems for everything to work, > and then make other RPMs available for apps that "hook into" that sub- > system. > > I really would lik

Packaging rant

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Ok, after the problems I had yesterday with Akonadi and KMail, and reading some other postings about how so many programs are integrated into one humongous RPM, it got me to thinking. Why do we *need* to have one ginormous RPM for a bunch of different apps? Why can't we just have one RPM per ap