On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 22:36 -0700, Mike Rooney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is another option here, now that the no-repo branch has been > > finished-ish by Alex - we could split the monolithic plugins source into > > smaller chunks - as small as a single plugin per source branch. That's > > probably too far, but it might be worth splitting a bit. > > It could be useful to have a plugins-main branch which contains most > of the plugins, all which don't pull in large desktop applications, > and then spin those which do into their own such as Banshee and > Evolution. Then have a plugins-all which is of course all of them. > This way you could address the bug reports about people who for > example don't want to install evolution just to use the basic plugins, > while still making everything fairly straightforward. > > In fact you could ship all by default and just tell people who don't > want to pull in those apps to uninstall -all and install -main, if you > wanted to maintain current behavior while allowing more customization. > > Just a thought :) > With the next release I fully intend to do this in the Debian & Ubuntu packages - now that Alex's branch has landed, split plugins packages will now be possible.
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