From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 23 05:11:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA01637 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 05:11:12 -0700 Received: from jhome.DIALix.COM (root@jhome.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA01627 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 05:11:06 -0700 Received: (from peter@localhost) by jhome.DIALix.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA04494; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 20:09:41 +0800 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 20:09:41 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm To: Mark Murray cc: Satoshi Asami , CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-games@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/x11/xneko xneko.c In-Reply-To: <199509231153.NAA11693@grumble.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, Mark Murray wrote: > > * > Modified: games/x11/xneko xneko.c > > > > * Just out of interest: What are X programs doing in the FreeBSD distributio > n? > > * should they not be in ports? > > > > Apparently (according to the cvs logs), they came with the 4.4-Lite > > tape. But I agree with you, it doesn't make much sense to have these > > in the main source tree when we don't have X in there! ;) > > > > And if you just want a cute demo...well, xneko maybe, but xroach is > > nothing short of "disgusting". :< > > I _love_ xroach! I have got some very satisfying (female) screams from > running it! :-> :-> :-> Likewise.. IMHO, *all* of the games should go to "ports". :-) > > I propose to move them to ports. > > Seconded. The only problem is that there's no real mechanism for actually providing a complete "kit", including packaging, source and the works. The only way we can make a port out of it, is to make a tar.gz of the source as it currently stands and then put it on freefall's ftp area. It'd be really nice if there was an easy, sanctioned way of including an entire (SMALL!!) source tree somehow with the port, perhaps under files/source/*? We could do away with patches, as we could just cvs commit directly into the source. With some clever makefile trickery, it may be possible to build everything under "work", referring to the source files without havng to copy or link them. IMHO, packaging it up into "LOCAL_PORTS" on freefall is pretty gross. On the other hand, it'd be a shame to bloat the size of the ports collection. Things like "sup" could also be done as a "complete source" port, perhaps. Thoughts? (yes, I know this would be a slight shift in paradigm, I think it would be better, providing it wasn't abused.) -Peter > M > -- > Mark Murray > 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa > +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 > Finger mark@grumble.grondar.za for PGP key >