Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

["Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>]

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On Friday 18 January 2008 15:36:29 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 out of date.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

Well, it wasn't really my decision. ;) But I can say that a pro is that it 
provides the users with a choice and the maintainance overhead when compared 
to only doing splits isn't really all that big. The only real con in my 
opinion is that it confuses those who haven't read the kde-split document 
before installing kde.

-- 
Bo Andresen

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