Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:09:25 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ... Message-ID: <200506261309.26868.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42BDF3D9.6000803@magnesium.net> References: <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506251924.24269.lofi@freebsd.org> <42BDF3D9.6000803@magnesium.net>
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--nextPart1605033.LjmEKDOcTj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 26. June 2005 02:16, Adam Weinberger wrote: > lofi - > > You're kindof beating a dead horse here.=20 Obviously not. Or to put it another way, just read Alexander's mails to see= =20 how this horse had been dead for so long that people are mistaking its deca= y=20 scent for a BBQ and even will make a case for it to stay and rot further! > For the meantime, stuff should go into X11BASE, where everything X-based > except for KDE and OOo is, and should become part of the list of stuff > to be moved to LOCALBASE. Huh? What kind of a strategy is that? Sticking our heads into the sand=20 full-force until they magically emerge on the other side of the planet agai= n? > If you can come up with a deployment plan to leave xorg in X11BASE and=20 > move everything else out, *please* let us know! But arguing about how=20 > things are wrong now won't solve much. How about appointing some of the many, many people who are in agreement wit= h=20 me to portmgr deputies for a start so there's at least some manpower=20 available? I can guarantee you that nobody will just sit down and submit a = PR=20 with a megapatch without some kind of backing by portmgr/RE. Also, the mass-migration is just the critical last step. The very first ste= p,=20 as Alexander has pointed out, is to change the documentation to even more=20 clearly state that putting anything that isn't part of the X11R6 distributi= on=20 is taboo. It's a silly verbal cluebat, but we're apparently in need for one. And there's a lot of stuff that doesn't need a huge deployment plan, but ju= st=20 a good opportunity. Qt for example can easily move out of X11R6 - I'm=20 planning to do the move with Qt 4, where changing the prefix will have the= =20 additional bonus of making it harder for people to try and compile KDE 3.x= =20 with Qt 4. I'm pretty sure there are many other things in X11R6 that can be= =20 rather easily moved before we'd need to deal with the big showstoppers (lik= e=20 GNOME). =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1605033.LjmEKDOcTj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBCvozmXhc68WspdLARAikrAJi/hFgEy/cSFFhqSwHZ17zbuENIAKCGhJSG C40tQmdDhYgY0aHk2e6djg== =pgAv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1605033.LjmEKDOcTj--
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