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 :-)
Well, after discussion among the other mips folks, we are of the opinion that if the monolithic kde ebuilds are removed, then we just won't maintain kde on our arch anymore. You just can't expect some of these non-x86 arches that have smaller dev teams to have the time to mess with 400+ ebuilds for kde. Also, emerging 400+ ebuilds on many of the machines we support is just not feasable. Not only that, but the bloat this brings to the portage tree is awful. I just hope this doesn't go further in the future to where the ebuilds get spread across the tree into separate categories.
Steve
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