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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:49:23PM -0600, Ian Monroe wrote:
> 2010/2/6 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> > It will be impossible to do in-module and out-of-module builds with
> > the same source code.
> 
> It's possible, but it is a pain to maintain. This was the situation
> that Amarok 2 was in for its years in extragear/multimedia SVN. We
> basically only supported checking out Amarok by itself, but the ten
> people who built it from multimedia would be annoyed whenever we broke
> things for them.
> 
that's not a problem of the concept, but how it was implemented. we
discussed how to achieve true independence of modules in another thread.