[csw-users] How to merge multiple source trees into one package

[Juergen Arndt]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:34:52 +0100, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski  
<blizinski at google.com> wrote:

> You could write your own "master" Makefile which would in turn call
> both A and B Makefiles.

Yes, good idea, thank you!

> However, I'd like to ask you about why do you want to merge two pieces
> of software like this? Why not have two separate packages, possibly
> with dependencies?

Philip and I discussed exactly this point yesterday. For this special case  
the main reason for merging binaries is to keep the package consistent to  
it's older versions. I agree, that it shouldn't be the general way to  
build packages.

Juergen

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Juergen Arndt