Subject: Re: Overhaul X11 handling [was Re: need advice for integrating modular
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/20/2006 10:59:35
joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:19:38PM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
>> (4) Modify the monolithic X.org and XFree86 packages in pkgsrc to
>> install directly into /usr/pkg, and not into /usr/pkg/{xorg,XFree86}.
>> Make them conflict with each other.
>
> I plan to kill XFree86 in pkgsrc with the exception of -server, so this
> problem will mostly vanish.
If that's really true, then I would certainly not mind seeing the
monolithic X.org packages vanish as well, so that pkgsrc could just
focus on supporting "native-X11" or else using the modular X11 component
packages.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>