Hi all,
As of yesterday, the 'split' KDE ebuilds for 3.4.0_beta1 are in portage. Split ebuilds means instead of 15 ebuilds the size of kdebase, you get some 350 small ebuilds for konqueror and so forth. There's more info at http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde-split-ebuilds.html.
They're p-masked, but that's due to the beta, not the splittedness. Massive testing is invited - tell your friends.
In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that there are monolithic (old-style) 3.4.0_beta1 ebuilds there too, and you can even mix the two kinds. But I'd really like to see everyone use the split ebuilds :-)
So are the full ebuilds going to stay in portage? One reason I am so concerned about this is that running through 350 configure scripts will be more painful than you can even imagine on some of the machines we support on the mips side of things. We're talking disk throughput maxing out at 2mb/sec on an sgi indy for example.
Steve
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