Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> I mean, what's the advantage of the kde*-meta packages over the kde >> package, when the kde*-meta require just as much "junk", as the >> kde package does? Hm, really, what's the use of the kde*-meta package >> anyway? > > The -meta packages are a good idea.
Absolutely! > With the old style kde or kdepim etc > packages, you got everything whether you liked it or not. Well, that's what you get now as well... Eg. I don't want kppp, but I get anyway, whether I like it or not. At least sort of. > Putting a USE > flag on such an ebuild to build all of kdepim except kppp would be ... > tricky at best. True. > The -meta packages split everything in kde up on an app level, but there > is the disadvantage that you now have 300 ebuilds to choose from and > get to list *all* the ones you want. Exactly. > Perhaps the best route (maybe a good feature request?) is to put USE > flags in the -meta ebuilds. That's what I'd like to get as a result of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 > Then you get the full configurability of > what -meta gives, plus an easy way to omit stuff without having to list >>100 desired packages Exactly. Best regards, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
