[kde-packager] Re: KDE Frameworks 5 TP1 tarballs

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 06:07:16PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 January 2014 at 00:27:37, šumski wrote:
> > (Yes, i'm aware of the https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Coinstallability
> > page - but libraries are either co-installable, or not, i.e. 'they are co-
> > installable if you put certain files in package A, others in package B,
> > then you conflict them, then...' is not a valid argument IMHO, especially
> > for source based distros like Gentoo, or distros that don't split devel
> > packages, like Arch)
> 
> And in Fedora, we do split -devel packages, but having them conflict at RPM 
> level is frowned upon (tolerated but discouraged), and for entire frameworks 
> (or frameworks of Frameworks ;-) ), a clear case of "Do Not Want".

OK message received, I'll look into it, starting with attica.  Please send me any patches you have that are relevant.

Jonathan