Subject: Re: MD xsets
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Gerner <thomas@murmel.camelot.de>
List: tech-x11
Date: 09/19/2002 18:50:01
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:40:19PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> In article <20020918204755.B5975@wiesel.intern>,
> 	Thomas Gerner <thomas@murmel.camelot.de> writes:
> > I would like to move some MD files from one xset to
> > another. Currently NetBSD Atari has some similar files like i386 in
> > the xbase set. This makes the Atari xbase set not shareable with the
> > other m68k architectures. I like to move this files to the xserver
> > set. Are there any objections?
> 
> Yes, there are files in "src/distrib/sets/lists/xbase/md.atari"
> which don't belong into the server set:
> 
> ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/sun.termcap
> ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/sun.terminfo
> ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap
> ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo
> 
> I wonder if these files are necessary at all. It looks like we don't
> need "terminfo" and have "termcap" it the base system.

There are currently 4 archs which include this files to their xbase set,
atari, i386, macppc and shark. I'm not sure if this files are normally used,
but if not I think atari can omit them.

> 
> > In distrib/sets/lists/xserver is a ad.m68k file, which refers to
> > rgb.db. Atari does not use a rgb.db, instead it uses rgb.txt. Is it
> > possible to remove ad.m68k and add rgb.db to the MD xserver set
> > files?
> 
> Yes, that makes sence. Do you which X11 servers need it really?

No, I have no idea, but I think I can find this out.

Thomas