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Re: Moving expat and a few other libraries to the base system



On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:52:36PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>    
>    Joerg also mentioned that two more libraries could move too:
>     freetype
>     fontconfig
>    
>    What do other think about such changes?
> 
> 
> let's revert this when we have real syspkgs, but do it for now.  the
> issues are more annoying than dealing with having these 3 packages
> always included.
> 
> at the very least, expat should move.

I do not want them in base (expat included) simply to make dealing with
xsrc vs non-xsrc easier. It might be a better idea to split from the X11
sets though to give a somewhat nicer granularity. I don't believe in
syspkgs until I see them :)

Joerg


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