Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:50:31 GMT From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/73309 Message-ID: <200411030850.iA38oVL9065608@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/73309; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To: gnats <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ports/73309
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 00:46:35 -0800
>From a private reply I made to lesi@:
> I'm really torn on this. Principle says, "don't add it" because of the
> fontserver possibility, but the vfbserver-for-portbuilds case is pretty
> convincing. If miscbitmaps wasn't huge (a package build there looks
> like 6.2MB) I would be more inclined to say just add it, but for the
> thin client environment it seems pretty significant. At this point, I
> would personally either change vfbserver only to depend on miscbitmaps
> (since it only really gets used for port builds) or just leave the
> status quo and tell other ports to handle the requirement.
A good question is how many ports are affected by this requirement?
OO.o is all I know of, off the top of my head.
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Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu
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