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Bug 173926

Summary: media-gfx/album should be installed with themes etc.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Uwe Sinha <uwesinha>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: VERIFIED UPSTREAM    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Download.html
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Uwe Sinha 2007-04-09 16:29:02 UTC
'album' is way more fun if you don't have to download and install themes, plugins and language options (IOW: everything contained in <http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album_data.tar.gz>) by yourself. IMHO this can be done as well by the ebuild. 

Maybe a new USE-flag can be introduced to decide whether to install themes etc. in /usr/share/album. 

Maybe /usr/share/album should be created by the ebuild anyway so there is a well-defined place where that optional stuff can go.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-09 16:42:22 UTC
Sorry, won't be done at least until upstream provides versioned tarballs for themes etc; it's disallowed by our policy for very good reason (perpetually broken checksums and digest collisions). And no, we certainly won't be mirroring them manually. :)
Comment 2 Uwe Sinha 2007-04-09 18:44:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Sorry, won't be done at least until upstream provides versioned tarballs for
> themes etc; it's disallowed by our policy for very good reason (perpetually
> broken checksums and digest collisions). And no, we certainly won't be
> mirroring them manually. :)

Hum...too bad. I'm not sure if themes etc. change as often as the actual program. Maybe then this should go into a separate package (of course, *if* there are versioned tarballs someday)...

But what about at least having the ebuild create a /usr/share/album dir? Do I have to file a new bug for that? Or can we just reopen this one? It seems to be a trivial change to the ebuild which even I could do. ;-)

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-09 22:02:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hum...too bad. I'm not sure if themes etc. change as often as the actual
> program. Maybe then this should go into a separate package 

Sorry, we've done this mistake once w/ drupal, and won't ever do it again (see Bug 89125 for the fun). And it wasn't even unversioned there, they just kept changing the tarballs without any version bump.