From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 20:17:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B612E16A419 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:17:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F53413C442 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2007 20:17:43 -0000 Received: from ip176-173-59-62.adsl.versatel.nl (EHLO Rena.FStaals.net) [62.59.173.176] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 29 Nov 2007 21:17:43 +0100 X-Authenticated: #25365336 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+THNspskqThL73qAvrkeRnnb3IH4W2x7HJ57agvH 73PZid3iS0GgT1 Message-ID: <474F1E27.20906@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:16:39 +0100 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freminlins References: <474EBC23.3000901@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Dominic Fandrey , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:17:45 -0000 Freminlins wrote: > Err, yeah. Look through hundreds of packages to see which dependencies they > have. Helpful. Not. > > This way of doing X11 is seriously unhelpful to end users. If having > individual packages for everything is so good, please tell me why everything > in /bin, /usr/bin and so on is not an individual package. It's because the > idea of doing so is dumb. > > Frem. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Allthough I think the modular approach to Xorg is a good thing, I have to agree the xorg-meta port installs A LOT of ports. A xorg-lite port an xorg-lite port would be usefull for a user who is planning on installing a low-end X windows environment. I thought I read at the freebsd-ports list such thing was being worked on some time ago. But I haven't heard anything about it anymore for quite some time now. What happened to that idea ? Regards, -- -Frank Staals