Subject: Re: Xorg 6.9/7.0
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/01/2006 20:56:34
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> "modular" as in that every library or program that conforms X.Org
> is now in its own distfile, all autoconf-ized (a la GNOME). (I don't
> know the granularity of the packages, though.)
I.e. instead of having a per-OS config file, we have to run configure for
each program now? (heavens...)
> I think we'll eventually have to switch. And IMHO, the resulting
> packages will be better than the current situation of patches for
> imake files and inconsistent installations between pkgsrc-supported
> OSes.
No idea. It sounds messy at least... (but then I'm just a conservative old
fart :)
- Hubert