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

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Sábado 6. Fevereiro 2010, às 23.16.25, Ingo Klöcker escreveu:
> 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.

No, we can't do that.

The moment that we start splitting the repositories, the CMakeLists.txt files 
will start to drift. It will be impossible to do in-module and out-of-module 
builds with the same source code.

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