kde-redhat differences

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Dec 22 19:00:50 UTC 2005


On Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:29 am, Rex Dieter wrote:
> * Includes additional features provided by FE and livna pkgs,
> modularized as addon subpkgs when possible (still a bit more work to
> do here)

Like DVD & mp3 support?  Or something else?

> * Aggressive stomping of libtool dependancy bloat
> * All pkgs built with standard ./configure opts:
>    --disable-rpath \
>    --disable-gcc-hidden-visibility \
>    --enable-new-ldflags \
>    --disable-debug --disable-warnings \
>    --disable-dependancy-tracking --enable-final

Why don't the regular Fedora KDE packages use these options?

> * kdebase
>    dbus-qt support (fc3,fc4,el4 only)
>    enables "Start New Session" multiuser feature

This seems to be available in the rawhide packages already.

> * kdebindings:
>    -dcopperl: perl-DCOP bindings subpkg (because kdesdk depends on it,
> no need to pull in *all* of kdebindings just for this)
>    --with-java (FIXME/TODO: make java bits a subpkg)
> * kdegraphics:
>    BR: freeglut-devel (for kpovmodeler)

Freeglut is available in the core now, isn't it?

>    BR: lcms-devel

Should lcms go into the core?  Or is kdegraphics the only package that 
might make use of it?

>    BR: jasper-devel
> * kdelibs:
>    -apidocs: noarch subpkg
>    BR: jasper-devel, --with-jasper
>    BR: lua, --with-lua
>    BR: OpenEXR-devel, --with-openexr
>    BR: mDNSResponder, zeroconf support (sorry, not submitted to FE
> yet)

This would be good to get in, it would allow for easier printer 
discovery, right?

> -menus: optional XDG menus replacement of redhat-menus, providing 
> KDE's default menus (overrides via XDG_CONFIG_DIRS env variable).
> /etc/profile.d/kde.(sh|csh): includes optional KDE_ env variables for
> tweakers: KDE_IS_PRELINKED (on), KDE_FORK_SLAVES (off), KDE_MALLOC
> (off), KDE_NO_IPV6 (off), GLIBC_FORCE_NEW (off), XDG_CONFIG_DIRS *
> kdemultimedia:
>    -extras: extra bits enabled via FE addons (see bz #176288)
>    -nonfree: bits enabled via livna addons
> * kdenetwork: BR: openslp-devel, --with-openslp
> * kdepim:
>    BR: gnokii-devel, --with-gnokii
>    BR: gpgme-devel, --with-gpg=%{_bindir}/gpg,
> --with-gpgsm=%{_bindir}/gpgsm (bz #136533)
>    BR: libmal-devel (bz #172140), --with-mal

Dunno about this stuff...

Jesse




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