Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:57:20 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: comments/suggestions on the ports system Message-ID: <20030127165720.29781.qmail@web13405.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi guys;
I'm back to using FreeBSD and finally I am doing some
ports. I wanted to share some issues I had with 5.0
DP:
1) I did a DOS installation and found that my system
wanted to install some packages, but I didn't know
which so I had to reboot and copy all I could to the
HD. XFree86 was of course the first but it also needed
imake so it soon became a mess, not to mention the HD
memory requirements.
2) I like it that we now install XFree86 from the
package, but unfortunately the package is not fully
integrated and configuring it causes pain (the
configure utility expects to write /etc/X11/XF86Config
or /usr/X11/etc/XF86Config and these directories don't
exist). I concluded the best solution for this would
be to set X11BASE=/usr/X11/ by default in the ports
tree: changing all the ocurrences of this to
/usr/X11R6 would be a nonsense and besides the ports
tree should be perfectly prepared for this type of
change.
3) The ports tree has grown too much and it's not
practical to download all the tree to submit just one
or two ports. I propose that it is divided in several
packages:
ports-base
ports-devel
ports-math
ports-cad
etc... and a ports metapackage. This would not be a
complete solution, but combined with cvsweb it would
make the ports system usable again (for me).
4) KDE, GNOME and the related Qt and GTK apps have
grown a lot should be in a different CD, giving the
priority in the first CD for console applications.
mtools should always be in the first CD.
just my 4 cents and only all IMHO ;).
cheers,
Pedro.
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