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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).

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