Modular building of kde modules

[Matthew Woehlke]

Adding fedora-devel ;-).

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Somewhat OT, but one thing I would really appreciate is if I could
>> install kcalc without dragging in the entire bulk of cups due to
>> printer-applet. (This is partly a Fedora problem, however; IOW, I wish
>> they'd split kdeutils - and, for that matter, kdepim - into smaller bites.)
> 
> Yes, that's a problem of Fedora.
> I just checked, in kdeutils/ each subdirectory is added using
> macro_optional_add_subdirectory(),
> i.e. there is an option which can be used to enable/disable each subdirectory 
> individually, e.g. you can enable BUILD_kcalc and disable all other BUILD_* 
> options and then only kcalc will be included in the build.

Unfortunately, I don't think this helps in this instance. When building 
RPM's, I don't think there is an easy way to do multiple *builds* from a 
single source (which is the solution methodology you are proposing). 
What you can do (and is often done) is split a single build into 
multiple RPM's at the file level. Therefore I'm not sure KDE needs to 
change anything.

> Actually of course it would be even nicer if you could just check out 
> kdeutils/kcalc/ and just build that, but that requires more (although 
> basically boilerplate) work from the developers.

This would be the alternative to the above, but as you say, more work 
for developers. Plus it means you must split *every* subdir into its own 
RPM, which probably isn't ideal.

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Matthew
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