Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:19:21 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Satoshi TAOKA <taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print Makefile ports/print/pips-sc480 Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr Message-ID: <20011108101921.B672@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20011108095631J.taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>; from taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:56:31AM %2B0900 References: <200111071755.fA7HtGH45299@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011107123409.C45824@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011108095631J.taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:56:31AM +0900, Satoshi TAOKA wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:55:16AM -0800, Satoshi Taoka wrote: > > > taoka 2001/11/07 09:55:16 PST > > >=20 > > > Modified files: > > > print Makefile=20 > > > Added files: > > > print/pips-sc480 Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr=20 > > > Log: > > > Photo Image Print System for Linux --- EPSON Stylus SC40 > > > > Do these really have to be separate ports? > > I think do. > > First the above message "EPSON Stylus SC40" in Log is wrong. > This port is for "EPSON Stylus SC480". > > Each names of the ports came from printer names (e.g. > Photo Image Print System for linux --- epson Stylus SC480 > is abbreviated to pips-sc480). > > Each of the printer drivers pips* and bjfilter* is for a EPSON injet > printer and a Canon bubble jet print, respectively. > > And then its size is more than 1 MB. > So total size of these drivers for each vendors is too large to > collect (in the case of EPSON, the size is more than 30MB). > > These were distributed from the vendors and a part of source codes > (which is concerned with patents) is not open. > So we cannot modify the codes to reduce the size. Would it be possible to create a single port with many distfiles, and use dialog(1) in a pre-fetch target to only set DISTFILES to those that are needed? G'luck, Peter -- If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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