On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:34:22PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 01:48 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > 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. > > It can't be packaged in the sense of shipping binaries. But if a > wrapper script is provided that automatically recompiles dwm for the > individual user whenever necessary, the software could be packaged in > the sense that it could be installed and updated with yum and would be > functional without user intervention. The latter is my definition of > "packageable". Compare to the akmods offered by RPM Fusion. I suppose rebuilding for every individual user would also be possible. I guess the best way to do that without any user intervention would be to rebuild every time a user's X session is started -- it's so small one would hardly notice it. I created this draft based on my yesterdays email: http://psabata.fedorapeople.org/dwm/dwm-5.8.2-1.fc13.src.rpm However, there are some limitations when compared to your approach: 1. One has to manually call dwm-reconfigure to rebuild dwm with their configuration 2. All users in the system share the same settings (this is worse) So, the new idea: package dwm: - installs binaries with default configuration only - depends on dmenu and xterm package dwm-user (or whatever): - installs dwm sources and a "dwm-start" script which: - checks for, say, ~/.dwm.config.def.h; runs default dwm if it's not present, or recompiles dwm in ~/.dwm with the user configuration and runs it if the config's there (and possibly has changed since the last time) - depends on dwm, gcc, make and Xlib-devel Petr > > -- > Matt > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Petr 'contyk' Sabata, Red Hat, Brno () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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