From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 10:23:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB52E16A412 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from niclas.zeising@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6568A13C461 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from niclas.zeising@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so5813021uge for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:23:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d2dn0MzowrG2IFB2Dp0yUyBxUOnTJs2GwAOcXV/O7F+7xOLguV1JkqUCi7xMHY4kEdk8gUWb/UvZJA3jatI80i9jvnyk1/KzB0+t6IGqhXVWaHKMMMW1ws+HIeXUTrGGOfemVWXQ1A9BZ4lBeSvbkC9y5axEySpcerq4DS9BtfE= Received: by 10.78.172.20 with SMTP id u20mr4426908hue.1168338202354; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.29.12 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 02:23:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:23:22 +0100 From: "Niclas Zeising" To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070109020347.GB2599@mail.scottro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45A2F08B.1010009@FreeBSD.org> <20070109020347.GB2599@mail.scottro.net> Subject: Re: X.org (experimental) ports moving to LOCALBASE soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:23:24 -0000 On 1/9/07, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:31:55AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote: > > > > > > Now that most ports are X11BASE-clean, I'm going to move X.org ports to > > ${LOCALBASE} (as opposed to ${X11BASE}, where they live now). So expect > > a commit talking about X.org PREFIX in the next few days. > > > > Actually, I advise using git-whatchanged and git-log before you make any > > upgrade of your installed ports. The prefix change should need a > > PORTREVISION bump but I won't do it (cause I'm too lazy), so you'll have > > to type something like "portupgrade -R xorg\*". > > [SNIP] > > My own list--(it'd be great if other people give their opinions > too--SirDice, if you're reading this, it's a start at our xorg-lite) :) Um, speaking of xorg-lite, I was thinking a bit about doing an option-based xorg install, where you can choose what to install at config-time via the ncurses-based framework. The options will propably mostly be related to drivers and maybe some apps in that case. The drawback is that we might get horrible Makefiles because of all options and so on... But anyway, what do you guys think? I'm not even sure if it's doable, it's just an idea. > > After deinstalling (or in a fresh install, where one hasn't yet put any > X related things.) > > xorg-libraries > > xorg-fonts-${truetype type1 100-dpi 75-dpi miscbitmaps} > > twm and xterm (if you don't already have your own WM and xterm of > choice), xauth, xinit (forgetting that one leaves you without startx > which is embarrassing) and xkbcomp. (Leaving out xkbcomp left me having > to use xmodmap to set Mod4 to be the Windows key, left me without the | > key in some terminals, etc.). > > xorg-server > > xf86-input${keyboard mouse videodriver of choice}. (I've had no trouble > running vmware without the vmware driver, by the way.) > > As the above will pull in various other things, it has worked for me, > especially if I then install (on a fresh installation for example) > fluxbox and mlterm. > > Florent and others, once again, you guys are doing a fantastic job. +1 Regards! //Niclas --