Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 12:02:03 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: split xcbgen from xcb-proto Message-ID: <4A03F50B.6050908@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <86hbzwvzsd.fsf@chateau.d.lf> References: <4A01C995.1080808@icyb.net.ua> <86hbzwvzsd.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
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on 08/05/2009 10:06 Ashish SHUKLA said the following: > Andriy Gapon writes: > >> It seems that it is a kind of bloating to require python with X (even if only a >> small portion of it is needed). Unfortunately upstream guys maintain xcb-proto and >> xcbgen in the same distribution. But a trend among packgers seem to be to split >> these two into separate packages. I wonder if anybody is working on the same for >> our ports. > > I don't think splitting into two ports will be a good idea. Why? They did it this way in pkgsrc and in debian packages. It seems natural to have C stuff as one port/package and python libs for transforming XML as another. -- Andriy Gapon
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