A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.

[Simon Hausmann]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:39, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:53:23AM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> > kdesdk isn't about developing FOR kde (only), it's about developing WITH
> > kde. IMHO it would be a good place for unsermake.
> >
> > > And kdenonbeta, well, is a mess.  It's an annoyance to keep something
> > > that's mature there just because there's no better location.
> >
> > Yes - and it's not packaged so it requires using CVS (whereas kdesdk is
> > available everywhere, so having unsermake there would make it easier for
> > people to use it when compiling e.g. kde tarballs).
>
> Having unsermake in kdesdk will cause a circular dependency if someone
> wants to build kde with it, as long as kde is written to use autotools
> this will be fine. But its something to keep in mind.

As unsermake itself is written in python it doesn't require a build on itself, 
so it should be fine (besides that it's only needed for the Makefile.cvs 
step, not for configure/make/make install on a release tarball) .

Simon