Re: Native X.Org: testers wanted

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:37:10 -0500
Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:

> 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)
> 
Oh, it's definitely build-time for perl.  I can't easily check now
about deleting those -- I'm rebuilding the rest of the packages I need
-- but eyeballing the list suggests that about 200 are run-time and the
rest build-time.  (egrep -v '^(meta|x11|font)' pkgs.txt)


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb