Spurred by a comment of Ben's on IRC "see why I rebuild everything every few 
days?" I decided to clean out KCE and KBE in my jail on dillon.

KBEsed requires KBElibtool.
KBElibtool uses /opt/kdebld/bin/sed.

This is, naturally, not a tenable position.

Can we please leave well enough alone, *especially* in the very fundaments of 
our build system? Over the past two, three weeks we seem to have regressed 
from "all the dependencies compile and 13 KDE SVN modules are ok, we still 
have three showstopper bugs in KDE itself" to "KBE sometimes might compile; 
the dependencies work most of the time but have tons of random hacks added; 
if you manage to get to KDE SVN then *it* is actually in good shape, with the 
same three showstoppers."

I think this is distracting us from our primary purpose, which is getting KDE 
itself to work well on a (narrowly defined, initially) set of Solaris 
platforms. KDE 4.1 is already at the beta 2 stage and we should be working on 
it, not on destabilizing the base it builds on and introducing tons of new 
(optional) dependencies.

[ade]

Reply via email to