Re: Native X.Org: testers wanted

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:23:20PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> For fun, I built all of modular xorg:
> 
>       meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps
>       meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers
>       meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-fonts
>       meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-libs
> 
> on a 4.0 system with no packages installed -- I wanted some idea of the
> effort involved.  The total: 207 packages.  More importantly, a number
> of them are not part of xorg per se, most notably perl.  If memory
> serves, the standard perl build environment doesn't permit
> cross-compilation.

        ew.. probably just a build time dependency though.  (I hope).
How many of those packages go away if you pkg_delete them all and 
just pkg_add the meta-pkgs?  (I thought I could get that with some
kind of bmake invocation in pkgsrc, but I don't remember how to get
it to recurse)

eric