From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 6 17:32:08 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 E027C1065677 for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 17:32:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD0F8FC1E for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 17:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id UAA15198; Wed, 06 May 2009 20:32:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4A01C995.1080808@icyb.net.ua> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 20:32:05 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090406) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ashish Shukla Subject: 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: Wed, 06 May 2009 17:32:09 -0000 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. >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. -- Andriy Gapon