From owner-freebsd-ports Fri May 19 19:18:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F072F37B5BD for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 19:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.79]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 May 2000 19:18:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3925F5E2.7C818FB8@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:18:10 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Clarence Brown , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE2: make install 'fails' ... References: <3925A8D3.F4609B5E@3-cities.com> <002201bfc1de$64e20de0$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> <20000519182516.R42474@argon.blackdawn.com> <3925EDB8.5A21AC09@3-cities.com> <20000519220822.B45875@argon.blackdawn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > > 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. I thought more was on the order of soft links and a script to change those around would do some of it. > > 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. I noticed and felt it was time to add my $0.02 :). Kent > > -- > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message