Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:52:57 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <488.888828777@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:47:14 %2B0100." <19980302094714.18899@deepo.prosa.dk>
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> "Now it'd be nice if"© a simple dialog box popped > up during sysinstall saying, "hey, you chose to install X, you have > less than N megabytes for /usr, but you have 3 Terabytes in > /usr/local: [do you want to | you should ] create /usr/local/X11R6, > and make a symlink in /usr ?" > > I might (*shudder*) even look at sysinstall's code (*tremble*) > and see if I can do it myself, if there's interest. Talk to Mike Smith - he's already (*shudder* :-) in this area of the code trying to figure out how to do proper sizing information for everything, not just the X bits, and implement proper "you're 30% done" progress bars. It sounds to me like what you want would fall out of this fairly easily. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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