Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/graphics/gimp
To: Marc Recht <recht@NetBSD.org>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/10/2004 11:56:18
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:40:14 +0200
Marc Recht <recht@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> > I'm working on packages for X.Org ATM, and it's easy to use the pkgsrc versions
> > of expat and freetype2.  For other things, like Xrender et all, it's not so
> > easy, and well... I don't think it's worth it, because we could end up with
> > xorg packages that install almost nothing.
> 
> But, pkgsrc's Xrender is the one from freedesktop.org..

Yes... but suppose we add libX11 (and many other libraries, part of xlibs)
from fdo too.  Then what, modify the XFree86 packages to use it, instead of
their own?  That way we could end up with XFree86-libs beeing almost a
meta-pkg...

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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