Re: Re: "Meta" packages

[Jim Garrison <garrison users sourceforge net>]

/usr/src/gnome-meta-1.4.0$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
--without-gnome-print
/usr/src/gnome-meta-1.4.0$ make

Something like this could be cool because a person would only have to type
prefix once (and it would be the same for all packages).  Since a small
amount of people (?) install from tarballs, it may not be worth the extra
effort and confusion, however.

It could also create a challenge because some of the configure scripts
check for things that haven't been installed yet.  This probably isn't
worth dealing with. ;-)

Jim Garrison

On 03 Oct 2000, Bob Smith wrote:
> Date: 03 Oct 2000 11:51:54 +0700
> To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
> From: Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>
> Subject: Re: "Meta" packages
> 
> One of the biggest problems I've seen is that when the number of
> packages is increased, the binary guys really like it, but the guys that
> compile from source throw a fit since they have to do so much stuff. I
> kinda came up with a solution for BLADE
> (http://bob.thestuff.net/projects/blade)
>  I have a build system that you run make once, and it configures
> everything under it as needed. It would take alittle bit of work to
> addapt it to work with gnome, but it would be worth it. Then the binary
> guys have more packages (selection) and the source guys can compile just
> what they want, easily. Anyone who's up to it can grab the build
> directory from blade and hack as needed.
> 
> 
> >  Julian Missig <julian linuxpower org> writes:
> > 
> >  > Talking with Telsa and Ankh, we came to the conclusion that it would
> be
> >  > very nice to have meta-packages for gnome 1.4. Smaller libraries
> could
> >  > be grouped together depending upon how essential they are, and this
> >  > lessens the number of things which need to be installed. I'd simply
> like
> >  > to bring it up for discussion. Would some kind of script be created
> to
> >  > help those compiling it all, or what? The basic idea is to optimize
> the
> >  > packaging and installation so that the downloads a 28.8 user has to
> make
> >  > aren't too large, and the number of installations a t1 user has to
> do
> >  > are minimal. I feel this will also help spread the new "essential"
> >  > libraries when the time comes, and it still allows us to only update
> >  > small libraries via helix-update when necessary.
> >  > 
> > 
> >  These meta-packages sound like a lot of work, and increase complexity
> >  for maintainers (each time a release is made, the relevant
> >  meta-packages have to get updated).
> > 
> >  I think we should reserve such higher-level categorization of packages
> >  for distributions at this time.
> > 
> >   - Maciej
> > 
> > 
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