From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 7:18:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D2037B405; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (darius@midget.dons.net.au [203.31.81.7]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8IEIYV49124; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:48:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010918160602.B90244@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:48:34 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alexander Langer Subject: Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4 Cc: glenngombert@zdnetonebox.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jordan Hubbard , "Daniel O'Connor" , Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Sep-2001 Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Robert Withrow (bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com): > > > I know it is slimy, but couldn't there be a dummy "port" just > > called "XFree86" that is what most other ports depend on? The minority > > of ports that actually care what version of X is installed could always > > use the version-specific names... > > Would be nice if we had a package system that lets you just install > - let me call them - "features", such as a "XFree86" feature, other > ports could depend on. Multiple packages could supply this feature > then and ports could also say if they depend on a specific version. Yes, I suspect the answer is along the lines of 'yes that's coming' :) The previous suggestion (have a generic XFree86 port) is a) hacky, but b) workable in the current package framework I suspect.. Probably have to trap a port guru and subject them to torture before it got implemented though ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message