Hello.

On 10/10/12 10:40, David Seikel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:33:30 +0100 Stefan Schmidt
> <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/12 10:17, David Seikel wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:00:54 +0100 Stefan Schmidt
>>> <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/10/12 09:50, David Seikel wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:37:00 +0100 Stefan Schmidt
>>>>> <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But I disagree here. Autodetection is even worse in the case for
>>>> the image loaders as your application will fail during runtime to
>>>> load a theme or display thumbnails, etc. In your strictly
>>>> controlled env this is not a problem as you can only blame
>>>> yourself but in my opinion this is a no-no for almost all other
>>>> users. Thus I would vote against autodetection and choose the hard
>>>> deps carefully to fit the majority of our users.
>>>
>>> I suspect packagers would rather have it my way as well.  Less work
>>> for them to do if it just detects what needs to be built.  They
>>> also have strictly controlled environments.  Then they only have to
>>> worry about making sure the dependencies are there, and not have to
>>> worry about figuring out more options as well.  Which is their job.
>>
>> I did some packaging for embedded stuff and I hated it. But it seems
>> we both did not do packaging for desktop distros (correct me if I'm
>> wrong for you here).
>
> Well, since you asked, I have done desktop distro packaging of E17
> professionally in the past.

Fair enough. :)

> In the end, it's rasters plans on this that matter more than our
> opinions, coz I suspect he has some. B-)

He always has. He just wants all his minions to poke around before doing 
what he plans to.;)

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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