From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 12:22:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B12F16A416 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from niclas.zeising@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90AD13C461 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from niclas.zeising@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so5839045uge for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:22:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a6ix/VdlApAU3r6iSWGPDU3BR6dG8vt9YxscaHUKBUWAz/USMltwfHuqf/9DVdzh3O89Y4TKmodborYK6bDaXo1uDuGBBLgWxsfPbaMc1xHGx8+iiDe6EqWWHjY3baUAI3GyblxluFfcwBL3yJqYGyoBYICj8pDNDg1vr7lthR4= Received: by 10.78.158.11 with SMTP id g11mr4444345hue.1168345350419; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.29.12 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:22:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:22:30 +0100 From: "Niclas Zeising" To: "Florent Thoumie" In-Reply-To: <45A37979.4060102@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45A2F08B.1010009@FreeBSD.org> <20070109020347.GB2599@mail.scottro.net> <45A37979.4060102@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org (experimental) ports moving to LOCALBASE soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:22:34 -0000 On 1/9/07, Florent Thoumie wrote: > Niclas Zeising wrote: > > On 1/9/07, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:31:55AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote: > >> > > >> > >> > >> > Now that most ports are X11BASE-clean, I'm going to move X.org ports to > >> > ${LOCALBASE} (as opposed to ${X11BASE}, where they live now). So expect > >> > a commit talking about X.org PREFIX in the next few days. > >> > > >> > Actually, I advise using git-whatchanged and git-log before you make > >> any > >> > upgrade of your installed ports. The prefix change should need a > >> > PORTREVISION bump but I won't do it (cause I'm too lazy), so you'll > >> have > >> > to type something like "portupgrade -R xorg\*". > >> > > > > > [SNIP] > > > >> > >> My own list--(it'd be great if other people give their opinions > >> too--SirDice, if you're reading this, it's a start at our xorg-lite) :) > > > > Um, speaking of xorg-lite, I was thinking a bit about doing an > > option-based xorg install, where you can choose what to install at > > config-time via the ncurses-based framework. The options will > > propably mostly be related to drivers and maybe some apps in that > > case. The drawback is that we might get horrible Makefiles because of > > all options and so on... But anyway, what do you guys think? I'm not > > even sure if it's doable, it's just an idea. > > I was thinking of writing a default set of dependencoes and giving the > opportunity to select the exact bits you want to install (like a USE > flag). Assuming there's like ~300 ports, I'm not sure to go the OPTIONS way. > > -- Okay. I haven't investigated how to actually do it, I just thought it was a good idea and wanted to see if anyone shared my oppinion before continuing my thinking ;) Regards! //Niclas