A humble packager's request: Retire kdeaddons.

[David Faure]

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.

Wrong: unsermake itself doesn't need to be built, it's all python, you only need
to export a VAR to it. So you need kdesdk checked out, but that's all. No circular dependency.

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Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).