Re: [gentoo-dev] Segregating KDE?

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:57, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> If Gentoo is committed to offering users a large degree of customizability,
> wouldn't segregating the various KDE components lend itself to continuing
> the evolution of that flexibility? I would cheer at the ability to type
> "emerge kmail" rather than "emerge kdepim".

This defnitely should go onto our FAQ if we have one.

Please see bug #11123 for the previous discussion on the subject.

This is the key paragraph quoted from there:
A kde configure script takes as much as a minute or more to run. Today when 
you emerge all of kde you run ~17 configure scripts, i.e. as much as 20 
minutes goes there (of course everything depends on the speed of the 
machine). If all kde-base packages are split into separate subpackage 
ebuilds, you'll get hundreds of subpackags (200+). That means an extra 200 
minutes -- 3.5 hours -- added to the compilation time of all of KDE. And most 
people do want the whole of kde. This is unacceptable

That said, the recent config-cache patch to portage, if accepted, could make 
this rather painless, so now this issue is finally worth raising again. (And 
perhaps unsermake could also help somehow?) I haven't tried it out yet 
though, so let's have some active KDE maintainer comment ;-)

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Dan Armak
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