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Date:      Fri, 08 May 2009 12:59:05 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        wahjava@gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: split xcbgen from xcb-proto
Message-ID:  <35489942@bb.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <86hbzwvzsd.fsf@chateau.d.lf> (Ashish SHUKLA's message of "Fri\, 08 May 2009 12\:36\:58 %2B0530")
References:  <4A01C995.1080808@icyb.net.ua> <86hbzwvzsd.fsf@chateau.d.lf>

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On Fri, 08 May 2009 12:36:58 +0530 Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Andriy Gapon writes:

> > It seems that it is a kind of bloating to require python with X (even if only a
> > small portion of it is needed). Unfortunately upstream guys maintain xcb-proto and
> > xcbgen in the same distribution. But a trend among packgers seem to be to split
> > these two into separate packages. I wonder if anybody is working on the same for
> > our ports.

> I don't think splitting into two ports will be a good idea. Instead I
> recommend using the PYTHON knob to install python stuff if user requires
> it.

It's a good idea for those who uses ports but not packages.

> > From the point of view of the port itself it seems to be as easy building only one
> > subdirectory of the project, e.g.:
> > http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/x11/xcb-proto/patches/patch-ae?rev=1.1

> > But it seems to be a more challenging task to decide which "higher level" ports
> > should depend on xcb-proto alone and which need xcbgen too.

> Yes, thats a challenging task. If more people require this, then I can
> add a PYTHON option to the xcb-proto to build/skip python related stuff in
> xcb-proto package.


WBR
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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