Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:25:55 +0000 From: "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Dejan Lesjak" <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <b2203fed0607121725r6d0dd2f6v4e7ef6caeb88323a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200607130209.21325.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> References: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <b2203fed0607121620j3bb40649i525e984cb1f80aa0@mail.gmail.com> <200607130209.21325.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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On 7/13/06, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:20, michael johnson wrote: > > I agree we should move a lot of software out of X11BASE but there > > will need to be a lot of work (esp. for gnome). I'm curious of the > > time frame in which xorg 7 will be committed to the tree? I'm not > > speaking for the entire freebsd gnome team but if we did decide > > to take on this task it would probably take several months to fully > > test and get everything working well in LOCALBASE. I think the > > major hurdle for us isn't moving everything to LOCALBASE it's > > more of the upgrade path people will have to take, having to > > rebuild all gnome components and all the bugs that will follow.. > > We certainly can't throw xorg 7 that installs in LOCALBASE in tree if that > would break entire gnome :-) Hopefully we can come up with transition that > would annoy users as well as maintainers the least. One option is to wait > with xorg until most ports that now install under X11BASE are converted. > Another one is perhaps to find out whether gnome for example would work > installed under X11BASE with xorg itself installed under LOCALBASE. > There's > possibility we add xorg-7 to X_WINDOW_SYSTEM flavours (as non-default > one), > default X11BASE to LOCALBASE in that case. Would that help with converting > and testing? I might have taken your first email wrong, I was assuming you want to remove X11BASE all together? Moving xorg to LOCALBASE won't be a problem for gnome, I'm just saying the gnome ports might stick around in X11BASE for a while unless we (gnome team) get some motivation to move. We've talked about moving gnome to LOCALBASE in the past but I think we've not attempted this because it's quite a bit of work for not a whole lot of gain. Wanting to remove X11BASE might be the kick we need. Also gecko ports would probably stick around in X11BASE for a bit due to the fact that most (if not all) gecko plugins and ports that depend on a gecko are also heavly tied in to X11BASE. Michael
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