Splitting up the kde modules

David Faure faure at kde.org
Wed Feb 18 16:42:49 GMT 2004


On Wednesday 18 February 2004 17:35, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Well yes, I thought konstruct could be told to update an existing
> installation. 
Can you at least try it once before talking about it? It downloads tarballs.

> > Sure, kde-build can build all of CVS. But when you just want to work
> > on one thing you don't necessarily want to recompile everything all
> > the time.
> 
> Well, IIUC, the downsides only appear when the entire kde installation
> is updated or installed at the same time.
On the contrary, partial updates are always the problem.

> IIUC, konstruct can do both 
> quite satisfactory.  If not, I don't think it's hard to write a script
> that does this.

Sigh. I give up, if you don't want to understand.

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