amarok(-utils): To merge or not to merge

[Jeff Mitchell]

Andreas Stangl wrote:
> Due to KDE "bug" #213143 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213143>
> and Gentoo bug #292447 <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292447>
> the question came up
> 
> if it makes sense to merge the packages media-sound/amarok-utils and
> 
> media-sound/amarok. I (and the Gentoo KDE-team) would like to know your
> opinion
> 
> about this. I personally think it should not be a problem to merge these
> two packages because there is no other package depending on amaork-utils
> (at least I don't know one) and both packages come from exactly the same
> repository.
> 
> The Gentoo KDE-team does not want different handling for the live
> ebuilds and the ebuilds from the main tree because it makes things
> inconsistent. So merging the live ebuilds at leaving the ebuilds from
> the main tree is not an option.
> 
> To merge or not to merge: that is the question!
> 
> What do you think?

They should absolutely not be merged.

As I explained in the bug report, the live ebuild should be handled
differently.

Failing that, they should be kept as different ebuilds, and the
amarok-9999 ebuild should trigger a recompilation of the
amarok-utils-9999 ebuild every time it's run.

--Jeff

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