Petr Sabata wrote:
> I've been thinking about packaging dwm [1] since we already ship dmenu and
> dzen2. I wonder if anybody would be interested in this fine window manager
> (except for me).
I think it's completely unreasonable to package that software, because of
this:
> The problem here: dwm is configured solely in C and has to be recompiled
> every time a user wants to change their settings (appearance, behavior,
> shortcuts, etc). In my opinion, we could do it like this:
>
> - install a Fedora preconfigured version along with dwm sources
> - copy its configuration (C header file) to some fixed location for
> user to customize
> - provide a script to recompile dwm locally using the local
> configuration file
Such a program is basically not packagable.
Kevin Kofler
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