On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:51:37 +0300
Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 30 April 2006 8:22 pm, Jason Chu wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:44:44 +0100
> >
> > Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote:
> > > >> Rohan Dhruva wrote:
> > > >>> On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>>> to most non-upgraded pkgs, there is a reason, why they are
> > > >>>> not updated yet!
> > > >>>
> > > >>> And the reason for not upgrading python since a month is ?
> > > >>> Lazy devs ? Because no app would break, like in case of
> > > >>> openssl.
> > > >>
> > > >> Are you serious, Rohan?! Do you really believe that slagging
> > > >> off the devs is going to get the result that you want?
> > > >>
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> > > >
> > > > I made packages for tk, tcl and now python. I also make the
> > > > PKGBUILDs All in all, the archlinux packaging system seems
> > > > brilliant. It's so much easier than rpm packaging or even deb
> > > > packaging. My hat's off to the the person who created this
> > > > packaging system!
> > > >
> > > > I do howerver have one question. Is it possible more than one
> > > > package out of a tarball? This would help in modularizing KDE.
> > >
> > > Yep, more than one package out of a tarball is possible.
> >
> > I think he actually meant more than one package out of a PKGBUILD...
> > you can make as many packages as you want out of a tarball, because
> > no PKGBUILDs are linked together in any way.  They wouldn't know the
> > difference.
> >
> > Jason
> 
> Actually yes, thank you Jason. That is what I meant. 
> For example, it is possible in debian and rpm packaging to build more
> than package out of a tarball using one build script and it is
> relatively easy to do that especially using debian packaging as long
> you know what file each package contains. 
> Is that possible with a PKGBUILD because that would really help with
> the KDE case?

That is not possible.  It's been discussed many times before and it's a
lot more complicated to add than just adding support in makepkg.

Jason

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