Another Plasmoid worth getting into the repo

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 20:29:25 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:24 PM, John5342 <john5342 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/1/31 Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Doesn't the plasma applet support a centralized repo for those
> >> plasmoids?
> >
> > Yes. Applets can be downloaded through "Get Hot New Stuff" but that only
> > works for scripts and portable binaries. Things like C/C++ can not be
> > downloaded like that because they would require compiling locally. Those
> > are the plasmoids that should potentially be packaged for Fedora if they
> > are useful.
>
> Seems like it would be useful to hack that to use PackageKit and get
> everything from there ... not that I am volunteering.
>

It actually seems like its something thats doable. The cmake parameters would 
all be the same. So a script to auto create a spec and build seems to be 
something that could be programmed if the programmer was clever enough. I 
guess that it would be a cool wish list thing for now.

Eli

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