Hi everyone, Not so long ago, I've notified the list of my KDE Frameworks work and received some feedback along it.
The main question back then was "Can all of the Frameworks Packages be installed at once like for example Xorg Libraries?" Well, I've managed to get the instructions for that ready for testing so the answer is "Yes, they can be!" However, I have decided to keep all the standalone packages in the book mainly because there will be some apps/packages that won't require most of the (biggest and longest to build) packages from that section. Building all of the Frameworks at once is only useful if building the entire Plasma desktop. When it comes to maintenance, I've implemented a LFS like packages.ent named kde5/kde5.ent. It contains shared XML headers for Frameworks and Plasma packages (download, md5, size, build size, sbu, etc) so they are shared between the standalone packages and all-at-once instructions. Frameworks are released monthly and I have yet to see them changing much besides translations and some minor fixes, so the maintenance burden of the individual page should be minimal. So far, my work can be found here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/kde5/kde5/frameworks.html or use the direct link to the new page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/kde5/kde5/kf5.html Any feedback is welcome. I believe that I've done everything I can to get the Frameworks section polished as it can be. With this done, I believe they are ready for inclusion in our books - but I'll leave that to the book editors. I can help integrate it but for the main branch they would need additional testing, mainly because systemd branch has way different Qt instructions which I also use, and the Frameworks have been written with such instructions in mind. There are few packages outside of Frameworks section that need to be added, mainly for the kapidox framework. There's one library - yaml and 4 Python modules - setuptools, markupsafe, jinja2 and pyyaml. All of the packages are available in the systemd branch and contain no branch specific instructions so they can be copied just fine. As for the KDE Plasma Desktop, I have yet to build latest version and update the instructions, but I still don't think it will be good enough for production use mainly because there are no apps at the moment (KDE 4 apps can be used though just fine) and some of the desktop functionality is missing - in fact everything that depends on the PIM suite. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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