Re: proposal: change default X11_TYPE on netbsd-6 to modular

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 04:19:57PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:17:09PM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
>  > What's the reasoning for maintaining two X11 collections?
>  > 
>  > My view is that man-hours are precious, so if there isn't a very good
>  > reason to duplicate effort, then don't.
>  > 
>  > I personally use modular for all my pkgsrc trees, mainly for consistency
>  > across platforms (CentOS, NetBSD, OS X).
> 
> The short answer is "Having X on non-x86 ports".
> 
> A somewhat longer form of that is: (a) pkgsrc crosscompiling is still
> not what it needs to be to get X built for all ports using fast build
> servers; (b) there are drivers and other bits that are only in native
> X so a big reconciliation is needed and this looks like work; (c)
> there's a faction that doesn't want to have to set up pbulk to get X
> built. And (d) I feel like I'm forgetting something.

Given that we provide no binary packages for the majority of the non-X86
ports and don't provide much useful X11 software in base, this list
doesn't make that much sense to me. (c) doesn't make sense at all --
nothing forces you to do a bulk build just to use modular Xorg from pkgsrc.

Joerg