[Slackbuilds-users] Package as a whole or in different parts

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, 1:43 PM B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/30/18, Xavier Maillard <xavier at maillard.im> wrote:
>
> > As I do not want to go the wrong way and I want to stick with the
> > KISS philosophy, I am just asking here: how would you package this
> > ? As a whole sat SBo build script, as 2 SBo (one for the backend
> > and one for the frontends), as many different SBo scripts (one for
> > the backend and one per frontend) ?
>
> Does the source for all of the above come as a single tarball?
>
> If so, I might do a single SlackBuild, that builds the backend and
> all the frontends by default, with environment variables to disable
> parts of it.
>
> Example: the transmission SlackBuild. I maintain that one, though I
> didn't write it from scratch (took it over from previous maintainer a
> while back).
>
> If the sources ship separately, it makes more sense to do separate builds
> for the different parts.
>

I do a similar thing for mediainfo. It is the same source for both the CLI
and GUI versions, so I have the CLI enabled by default (but can be disabled
if desired) and the GUI optional by passing GUI=yes.

Jeremy

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