Re: Fw: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

> 
> Now that I'm starting to understand pdebuild, it actually does seems
> pretty easy the way Ross suggested it. There's a bit of oddness, but I
> think I can have *something* tomorrow. 
> 
> > well, the Xnee version in Debian is 1.08
> > so it would be a huge update.
> 
> Splitting out the packages the way we really should can be done in two
> ways, the right way makes the deb-source more complex. This is why it
> would be better just to do everything in one package for right now,
> then split things out in the next package revision. 
> 
> > For me, as an embedded software developer it would make a lot of sense
> > to be able to install the cli version of Xnee (statically built) alone
> > without having to install tons of gtk stuff that I am not going to
> > use.... and will not have space for.
> > 
> > .... and the KDE people will not fancy having to install gtk stuff
> > just to have cnee (command line) on their machine.
> 
> I'm not sure about the idea of xnee on an embedded system, especially
> since it seems more likely that an embedded developer would be using
> something other than i386 debs, but I see your point and
> sympathize.

Well you know that if you have a deb, once uploaded to debian it gets
ported to other architectures. So creating the xnee deb for i386
ends up getting one made for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.   

> definitely agree with you on the kde issue. In fact I use Xmonad on my
> desktops and (currently) use wmii on my laptop. I don't really like
> having any gtk anything on my system if I can avoid it... That being
> said, any package now and the right package later is still better
> than no package now and the right package later.

I strongly concur.

> I think we should
> continue to discuss potential package ideas as they would best serve
> the community, I'll try to read the debian policy and see if it has any
> pointers, and we'll plan on really doing things well in the first
> revision of this package. Until then I'm going to try to get this
> package to build. Cool?
> 
> > will focus on delivering some (emb) software for a company today.
> 
> sounds like a cool job. Have fun. 
> 

jeremiah