On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Martin Graesslin wrote:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 12:54:12 AM CET Eric Hameleers wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Martin Graesslin wrote:
Hi KDE distro packagers,
as you probably are aware Plasma 5.5 is the first release shipping a
Wayland session file. In the current state the session is not much usable
as can be seen in the known issues section.
Given that I expect that distributions move the relevant files
* startplasmacompositor
* startplasma
* plasmawayland.desktop
into a dedicated package (plasma-desktop-wayland-session) and do not
install it by default! We don't want users to select the Wayland session
by accident and run into a broken system.
Also please see https://community.kde.org/KWin/Packaging for advice on how
to package the Wayland session elements.
Best Regards
Martin Gräßlin
Well... Slackware does not create sub-packages, that does not fit in
with our philosophy.
I expect that the sources are configured to *not* enable compiling
the session components by default?
nothing gets compiled. Three files get configured and installed. And of course
that is not bound to a config option. That would in my opinion be pointless.
To me this is something to solve by proper packaging on distro level. Sorry
that this leaves Slackware in a strange state. I didn't know there are distros
which do not split packages.
Not having checked out Plasma 5.5 yet, I guess I will eventually find
out whether I need to explicitly disable building it
building cannot be disabled. Also Wayland is now a hard dependency in KWin (as
communicated a few months ago).
, or else
delete the offending files from the package afterwards. I do not want
to ship stuff with Plasma 5.5 that is really just a tech preview and
gives the user the wrong impression.
deleting the files on the other hand means that your users cannot test and
cannot provide feedback. My suggestion would be to check whether you are
affected at all - after all it only matters if your DM supports Wayland
session files. And in worst case just not shipping the wayland session file,
so that users can still manually run the startplasmacompositor.
Cheers
Martin
I think that not shipping the session file in its default location but
instead adding it to the documentation directory would be the most
desirable way forward for me and my Slackware packages.
I know about the hard dep on Wayland, that is not a problem. I am more
concerned about user experience. People who want to tinker and test
should indeed be given that opportunity.
Cheers, Eric
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