[libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Stahl]

On 11/10/13 09:00, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> Because we (intend to) have platforms where we need a
>> "stripped down" LibreOffice
> 
> I used to think so too (and still do). But now I think that should be
> handled during packaging, not during building. That puts the burden on
> the packagers of such stripped-down versions, where it should be,
> instead of making it possible to *build* (and fail building) LO in
> hundreds of different ways, which puts the birder on the source code
> maintainers.

no, the problem is that there are independent conditionals determining
whether something should be built, and whether the same thing should be
packaged.  there should be only one conditional to guard both building
and packaging.