From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jan 27 8:57:22 2003 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 9F68337B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13405.mail.yahoo.com (web13405.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 470E043F13 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030127165720.29781.qmail@web13405.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.24.79.225] by web13405.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:57:20 CET Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:57:20 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" Subject: comments/suggestions on the ports system To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message