Re: modular xorg packages?

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On Saturday 28 April 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I want to switch one of my machines to modular xorg.  What, precisely,
> do I need to install?  I do not see any obvious set of packages that I
> should install.

Here's what I installed (by trial and error until the X server would start and 
then until kde would build and run).  I believe it's i fairly minimal set.

x11/modular-xorg-server
x11/xf86-input-keyboard
x11/xf86-input-mouse
x11/xf86-video-ati  (has to match your graphics card)
x11/xinit
x11/xterm
x11/xauth
x11/iceauth
fonts/font-alias
fonts/font-misc-misc
fonts/font-cursor-misc
wm/tvtwm (not strictly needed)

I also added:

fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
fonts/font-adobe-100dpi

> In meta-pkgs, I see modular-xorg-drivers and modular-org-fonts.  I
> certainly need some driver, though it's not clear to me that I need or
> want all of them.  I probably do want the fonts, but everyone needs
> fonts -- and I don't see the fonts metapackage listed in any other
> package.  (I grepped Makefile* and *.mk throughout pkgsrc, so I could
> have missed it if it's in another file.)
>
> In x11, there's modular-xorg-server, though that seems to be dragged in
> by the individual drivers.
>
> Where do clients come from?  There's an xorg-clients package, but it
> seems to be for 6.9.  In wip, I see modular-xorg-utils and
> modular-xorg-wip -- do I need those?  Where, for example, will I find
> xterm?  (The PLIST files are empty for those two packages.)
>
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb