Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:48:01 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/tix/patches etc. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970108124618.7875A-100000@uplink.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9701081548.AA23151@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > >>>>> Satoshi Asami writes: > > > * Notice that the number of files that I politicked to get installed by tcl > > * was small. Go ahead, take a look at /usr/include/tcl, those generic and > > * unix subdirs are real sparse, and do serve the purpose. You _don't_ need > > * to install _all_ the tk headers, just do the ones that Tix wants. If you > > * like, I'll personally verify other ports of tk dependent stuff, and make > > * sure it works. The 100K byte bloat for a full (and useless) tk subdir in > > * /usr/local is just too much, I think, and it'll never be used. What's > > > Ok, if you can go over all the ports that does a DEPENDS=tk41 and see > > what is the minimum subset acceptable for all those, that should be > > more than good enough. Actually, it will be very appreciated! :) > > What about taking the files needed by tix from the tk distribution and > put them in tix/patches or tix/files? Then you just need to add a -I > directive in the makefile so that tix can compile. That way the > usr/local/include directory remains clean. As long as we don't have > 100 ports requiring each 100kb of include files I don't see any > problem. I am going to go thru a bunch of ports tonite that need tk, and see if I can determine a minimum include file set. I think I know what files I want right now. I'll be out of communications for a while (I'm downloading the XFree86 sources on a modem). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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