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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 06 February 2010, Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
> Please don't ruin KDE.  Having a reasonable number of source tarballs
> is one of KDE's greatest strengths.  It's nice to see a project of
> KDE's complexity that can be compiled by a technically-inclined end
> user, and not only by the project's developers (or people who are
> nearly so).

The number of tarballs we provide is largely unrelated to the number of 
Git repos we split KDE SVN into. We can easily put the content of 
several Git repos into one larger tarball. So for distros using tarballs 
(i.e. all binary distros AFAIK) nothing has to change. But the distros 
could choose to use the smaller per Git repo tarballs which we should 
also provide. That's up to the distro to decide.

So, IMO, we can safely regard the needs of packagers using tarballs as a 
non-issue in our discussion about how to split KDE SVN.


Regards,
Ingo
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