From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 8 08:59:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EBA1065670 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 08:59:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48C28FC12 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 08:59:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1M2Lv7-0007Wn-Ng; Fri, 08 May 2009 12:59:05 +0400 To: wahjava@gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA) References: <4A01C995.1080808@icyb.net.ua> <86hbzwvzsd.fsf@chateau.d.lf> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 12:59:05 +0400 In-Reply-To: <86hbzwvzsd.fsf@chateau.d.lf> (Ashish SHUKLA's message of "Fri\, 08 May 2009 12\:36\:58 +0530") Message-ID: <35489942@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andriy Gapon , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: split xcbgen from xcb-proto X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:59:08 -0000 On Fri, 08 May 2009 12:36:58 +0530 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Andriy Gapon writes: > > It seems that it is a kind of bloating to require python with X (even if only a > > small portion of it is needed). Unfortunately upstream guys maintain xcb-proto and > > xcbgen in the same distribution. But a trend among packgers seem to be to split > > these two into separate packages. I wonder if anybody is working on the same for > > our ports. > I don't think splitting into two ports will be a good idea. Instead I > recommend using the PYTHON knob to install python stuff if user requires > it. It's a good idea for those who uses ports but not packages. > > From the point of view of the port itself it seems to be as easy building only one > > subdirectory of the project, e.g.: > > http://cvsweb.se.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/x11/xcb-proto/patches/patch-ae?rev=1.1 > > But it seems to be a more challenging task to decide which "higher level" ports > > should depend on xcb-proto alone and which need xcbgen too. > Yes, thats a challenging task. If more people require this, then I can > add a PYTHON option to the xcb-proto to build/skip python related stuff in > xcb-proto package. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve