From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 06:10:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC6616A419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:10:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from waynec@spinnaker.com) Received: from schooner.spinnaker.com (schooner.spinnaker.com [199.175.163.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7C613C481 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from waynec@spinnaker.com) Received: from schooner.spinnaker.com (localhost.spinnaker.com [127.0.0.1]) by schooner.spinnaker.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA86A0dL054759 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from waynec@schooner.spinnaker.com) Received: (from waynec@localhost) by schooner.spinnaker.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id lA86A0rp054758 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from waynec) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:10:00 -0800 From: Wayne Chapeskie To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071108061000.GA53976@spinnaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key: http://www.spinnaker.com/~waynec/pgp-key.html X-PGP-KeyID: 0xB9D2D272 X-PGP-Fingerprint: CCFE 68D8 0468 A78F BA9D F388 8D14 7A5A B9D2 D272 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 and X.Org packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:10:07 -0000 This may already be on someone's todo list... However, I notice in 7.0BETA2 that sysinstall still has the old X.Org package list from the last ISO's that had packages, namely the 6.2 release. The xorg package structure has changed fairly significantly from xorg-6.9.0 to the current 7.3. Instead of a dozen or so packages, the top level metaport now installs about 240 packages; xorg-clients has been replaced by xorg-apps, which is a metaport for lots of little X applications. It might be a reasonable time to remove the fine-grained specifications of X.Org packages in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dist.c, and replace it with a single dependency on the top level meta-package. -- Wayne Chapeskie