Bug 292447

Summary:	Merge (live-)ebuilds amarok-utils and amarok
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andreas Stangl <mail>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Andreas Stangl 2009-11-08 22:59:33 UTC

Is it possible to merge the ebuilds media-sound/amarok-utils and media-sound/amarok? I am using the live-ebuilds from the kde-testing repository and I broke my amarok because I did not update both packages (see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213143). Are there any packages that need media-sound/amarok-utils?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jeff Mitchell 2009-11-09 00:26:18 UTC

It might be nice to have the amarok-9999 ebuild have USE flags that control the building of the utils, player, or both. That would help prevent this type of problem.

Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-11 02:52:35 UTC

We could merge them back together, but in that case what would be the interest of having split packages for the releases?
I can live with both options (split and monolithic amarok), but I think we should make an option and be consistent for releases and live versions.

Comment 3 Andreas Stangl 2009-11-11 19:55:18 UTC

I think the devs should help us decide this. I don't know any package that needs amarok-utils as a seperate package. Jeff Mitchell said in the kde bugtracker (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213143#c18), they requested the splitting because amarok-utils does not depend on X and can therefore be run on an headless machine, but I don't exactly know why it would make sense to run the collection scanner without amarok...

I agree that it might be a bad idea just to merge the live-ebuild and have split ebuilds in the main tree, because it makes things inconsistent. Adding a use flag to the overlay and the main tree does also not really make sense because amarok-utils will automatically be rebuilt in the main tree when it is updated.

I personally vote for the merge of both packages in both trees, what do you think?

Comment 4 Andreas Stangl 2009-11-24 19:46:30 UTC

Well, the amarok devs are not willing to merge the packages, gentoo devs should not add different handling for live ebuilds and common ebuilds so I am closing this. Always rebuilding both packages by hand "works for me" (TM).

Beside this I'm going to give the official ebuilds a try again, I hope they are more stable that they were in the past...