Fwd: Generating KDE development dependencies

[Rik Mills]

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Subject: Generating KDE development dependencies
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:38:28 +0100
From: Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>
To: distributions at kde.org

Dear distroers,
One of the problems we've detected is that it's considerably complex
for prospect developers to figure out what dependencies to install
before starting to work. Complex or just cumbersome, either way it's a
barrier to destroy.

To that end, I've been working on this system here [1] that should
allow us to create a shallow package that:
- depends on all the tooling required (e.g. compilers)
- depends on all the frameworks (or their -devel counterparts if it's
the case)
- installs an appstream file that suggests some other things to
install (like kdevelop/kate/plasma sdk)

Do you think your distro can adopt this?

Patches and ideas are welcome!
Aleix

[1] https://cgit.kde.org/kdesdk-devenv-dependencies.git/