Packaging KDE Foundation 5 frameworks

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Fri Oct 11 10:19:58 BST 2013


On Thursday 10 October 2013 17:56:56 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 10 October 2013, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 October 2013 19:26:48 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 09 October 2013, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I know it's a bit too early, but still better than late. I'd like to
> > > > know your thoughts about the way KF5 frameworks will be packaged for
> > > > Linux distributions.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm currently working on including Hawaii desktop (based around a Qt5
> > > > and Wayland-based compositor) in Fedora. We aim at delivering it
> > > > around
> > > > two Fedora releases in future therefore it makes sense to work on
> > > > packaging already. It currently depends on frameworks from kdelibs
> > > > framework branch (currently it's probably just tier1/solid) and extra
> > > > cmake modules.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm wondering what's your position on naming the packages? Does kf5-*
> > > > prefix (kf5-solid, kf5-extra-cmake-modules) make sense to you?
> > > > OpenSUSE
> > > > seems to use that (except that they don't include the prefix for ECM).
> > > 
> > > IMHO extra-cmake-modules really should not get a "kf5" prefix, this
> > > would
> > > IMO at least partly defeat its purpose. It was intended as addons for
> > > cmake (which happen to be useful for KDE), not as a tier0 package of
> > > KF5. Not sure if this changed though.
> > 
> > This. At least from what I understood in that regard, esp. from listening
> > to the KF5 talk at dev days yesterday.
> 
> What do you mean with "This." ?

:) Internet slang to stress my agreement with what you said before.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=this

Cheers
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Milian Wolff
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