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From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Subject: Re: ports/73309
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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>
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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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