> > Now that I'm starting to understand pdebuild, it actually does seems > pretty easy the way Ross suggested it. There's a bit of oddness, but I > think I can have *something* tomorrow. > > > well, the Xnee version in Debian is 1.08 > > so it would be a huge update. > > Splitting out the packages the way we really should can be done in two > ways, the right way makes the deb-source more complex. This is why it > would be better just to do everything in one package for right now, > then split things out in the next package revision. > > > For me, as an embedded software developer it would make a lot of sense > > to be able to install the cli version of Xnee (statically built) alone > > without having to install tons of gtk stuff that I am not going to > > use.... and will not have space for. > > > > .... and the KDE people will not fancy having to install gtk stuff > > just to have cnee (command line) on their machine. > > I'm not sure about the idea of xnee on an embedded system, especially > since it seems more likely that an embedded developer would be using > something other than i386 debs, but I see your point and > sympathize.
Well you know that if you have a deb, once uploaded to debian it gets ported to other architectures. So creating the xnee deb for i386 ends up getting one made for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc. > definitely agree with you on the kde issue. In fact I use Xmonad on my > desktops and (currently) use wmii on my laptop. I don't really like > having any gtk anything on my system if I can avoid it... That being > said, any package now and the right package later is still better > than no package now and the right package later. I strongly concur. > I think we should > continue to discuss potential package ideas as they would best serve > the community, I'll try to read the debian policy and see if it has any > pointers, and we'll plan on really doing things well in the first > revision of this package. Until then I'm going to try to get this > package to build. Cool? > > > will focus on delivering some (emb) software for a company today. > > sounds like a cool job. Have fun. > jeremiah _______________________________________________ Xnee-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xnee-devel
