[Kde-scm-interest] Package splitting

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:47:51PM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tuesday 26. January 2010 11.51.38 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > well, quite frankly, i was recently rather pissed off by that just
> > configuring kdeutils (to build kcalc and nothing more) required me
> > to install a full-blown kdepimlibs (or hacking the cmake files).
> > don't you think that there is something wrong with that?
> 
> Completely orthogonal; the problem you describe has to do with bad
> dependency checking for compile, not about splitting up sources you
> get.
> 
you got it completely wrong. the *core* of the issue is the assumption
that the module is atomic, so there is supposedly no need to decouple
the dependencies. to fix it, one needs to make every sub^n-module
self-contained buildsystem-wise. and guess what? once that is done, you
also have units which naturally fit separate git repositories. one may
still put a meta-structure over that to simplify checking out "all of
kde", to emphasize project hierarchies, etc., but the point is that at
this time it is totally optional.