From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 01:14:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2260716A4DD for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:14:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A8543D4C for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:14:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id 39so52916pyu for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:14:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=mN+Q9f4jIf6Al0tSoGcaleQrzh67qBghYnpWgpfiNH475tuZcsFmsWOIybw/8FCL3yZ5jSskwKQbJBH+5lvxZkAflBWy+cKuJtiKPmxe8F5sdO02zrBHM7/f8/PSHkmpE4fpvTzoxHLU1M3EURljLR3HLKnYiIOeZcMHYPBI32E= Received: by 10.35.91.10 with SMTP id t10mr72607pyl; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.87.9 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:14:49 +0000 From: "michael johnson" Sender: buhnux@gmail.com To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" In-Reply-To: <1152752348.53082.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060712234839.62961.qmail@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060713005600.GA57064@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <1152752348.53082.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e264cd1dc628eb7b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Brooks Davis , ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Fred Cox , Dejan Lesjak Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE 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: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:14:51 -0000 On 7/13/06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:56 -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:48:39PM -0700, Fred Cox wrote: > > > Those man pages for whatis are pretty radically > > > different in size. Maybe they are mergeable, but > > > there's going to be a fair amount of work doing that > > > for all possible conflicts. > > > > They are generated files see makewhatis(1). There will probably be a > > few real conflicts, but it's unlikely to be a serious issue. > > It may be more serious than you think. Currently, GNOME and KDE will > conflict with each other if this move happens. We will have to either > come up with a new pseudo-port to handle common files, or find some > other way of consolidating things. > > That said, GNOME's move to LOCALBASE will not be too problematic. In > fact, the number of required patches might drop off. I'd be willing to > bet that if someone did X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} and installed GNOME on a > clean machine right now, it would work. It does I tested this not long ago. Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQBEtZrcb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkiZAKCTjKIrWaQ126Tmtj3lzeaFyrxcDQCfbazr > yvcwPt/GzkYx+THnJacuusQ= > =riRK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >