On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
In addition to this we'll need to update our devtools and db-scripts to handle those packages right. extrapkg should be quite simple; archrelease and repo- add should work just fine; only the db-scripts will really fail because they cannot guess the svn-dir just from the package name anymore.
Hmmm, this one I will have to think about. The devtools changes should be straightforward, but the db-scripts changes will not. Any ideas as to how we can convert a packagename to an svn-dir name? I'd rather not scan the whole repo...
And last but not least: You might wonder why we not just include kdemod. I had a little talk with funkyou about this. KDEmod/Chakra has different goals and philosophy and is not really compatible with the Arch way. So they'd like to keep doing their own thing.
That's great. I love the kdemod guys - they have all the spirit and spunk that satellite projects should have. Can we make sure we stay in a... complementary mode, rather than try to compete with them? I don't know if this would be doing anything that would step on their toes or not, but it'd be really nice not to discourage them. I'm not a KDE user, but I hear nothing but great things about kdemod