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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 04:49:40PM +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Sábado 30. Janeiro 2010, às 16.34.27, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> > > You don't link to applications. You link to libraries.
> > > 
> > > This includes plugins: plugins link to libraries.
> > 
> > uhm ... so?
> > - the application needs to provide headers which define the interface
> > - the application may provide an internal library to link against
> 
> It's not internal. It's a public library, with installed headers.
> 
> It is so because the hypothetical plugin we have in mind here comes from a 
> separate module.
> 
well, yes. but one wouldn't put that library into a separate module, as
it is intrinsically part of the application. this breaks your concept
which doesn't permit dependencies on modules which are not explicitly
libraries.