Packaging dwm
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 14 10:29:24 UTC 2010
Matt McCutchen wrote:
> 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.
Akmods are a horribly ugly hack which is a very bad example to follow. (In
fact, I strongly recommend against using akmods, the binary kmods follow
packaging best practices much more.)
Kevin Kofler
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