From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 01:08:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09404 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:08:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09387 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA00493; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:52:57 -0800 (PST) To: Philippe Regnauld cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:47:14 +0100." <19980302094714.18899@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:52:57 -0800 Message-ID: <488.888828777@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Now it'd be nice if"© a simple dialog box popped > up during sysinstall saying, "hey, you chose to install X, you have > less than N megabytes for /usr, but you have 3 Terabytes in > /usr/local: [do you want to | you should ] create /usr/local/X11R6, > and make a symlink in /usr ?" > > I might (*shudder*) even look at sysinstall's code (*tremble*) > and see if I can do it myself, if there's interest. Talk to Mike Smith - he's already (*shudder* :-) in this area of the code trying to figure out how to do proper sizing information for everything, not just the X bits, and implement proper "you're 30% done" progress bars. It sounds to me like what you want would fall out of this fairly easily. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message