[Kde-scm-interest] [Proposal] Package splitting with thin meta-repos

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 03:31:12PM +0100, Michael Jansen wrote:
> Source Code Management has nothing to do with Build Management or
> Package Building. Nothing.
> 
> Given git submodule support would be usable. Noone says it's forbidden
> a module split in a bunch of git repos (like say kdebase-runtime) is
> buildable in one step. Noone ever enforces, requires or says it must
> be possible to even build  those submodules standalone. 
> 
no, but given the atomicity problem, having self-contained repositories
is sure advantageous.
and it would be wise to figure the structure out before doing the
split, otherwise we'll face the moving problem at a smaller level.

> Perhaps those submodules are buildable standalone. But they are not
> considered packages in the sense that they have find_package support.
> 
uhm, no, that's self-contradicting.