Packaging dwm

[Kevin Kofler]

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