Packaging of new plasma-foo work spaces

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On trečiadienis 25 Lapkritis 2009 18:25:28 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Our thought is to not split Plasma Desktop out into a separate binary, but
> leave it in kdebase-workspace as something that should always be installed
> (somewhat as a fallback) even if it's not started by default on some
>  devices.

Why?

>  Then additional plasmas (Plasma Netbook for KDE SC 4.4) would be
>  in separate binaries so they would only be installed on devices
>  appropriate for the specialized plasma.  The files built from:
> 
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/netbook/
> 
> would all go in a plasma-netbook package built from the kdebase-workspace
> source.

plasma-netbook package makes sense.

> 
> This approach seems reasonably scalable and future proof and also minimizes
> the amount of code installed on most systems.

It might be scalable, but it does not minimize amount of code installed. 
plasma-desktop is still uselessly installed where otherwise it is not needed. 
Anyway, more justification on technical grounds please.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modestas at vainius.eu>
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