From owner-freebsd-ports Fri May 19 19: 8:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0BA37BE32 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 19:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (05-079.dial.008.popsite.net [209.69.13.79]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05582; Fri, 19 May 2000 19:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5DD951960; Fri, 19 May 2000 22:08:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 22:08:22 -0400 From: Will Andrews To: Kent Stewart Cc: Will Andrews , Clarence Brown , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE2: make install 'fails' ... Message-ID: <20000519220822.B45875@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <3925A8D3.F4609B5E@3-cities.com> <002201bfc1de$64e20de0$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> <20000519182516.R42474@argon.blackdawn.com> <3925EDB8.5A21AC09@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3925EDB8.5A21AC09@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:43:20PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:43:20PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > It seems like these could be setup using a shell script. I don't know > if that is possible either. Well, you have to consider library namespace pollution.. both KDE 1.x and KDE 2.x call their libraries libkdeui, libkdecore, [...]. Shell scripts can't fix that sort of thing easily.. although I suppose maybe you could override system search paths with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > BTW, I liked your idea of XFree86 broken up into useful pieces. It > isn't with out bugs and adding patches or etc. should be much easier > than it is currently. Downloading 30+MB of source to get a patch > isn't acceptable. Broken up would make it much nicer :). I agree. However, other developers do not agree and feel that we should be forced to use the vendor's files as they are distributed (the distfiles). So you'd still have to download 30MB of distfiles just to build and install XFree86 libs/headers only. I'm going to pause on this subject because I'm interested in seeing what Satoshi and friends are up to. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message