X drivers depend on Gnome?

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 4 06:00:27 PST 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alex Goncharov
<alex-goncharov at comcast.net> wrote:
> ,--- I/Alex (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:11:30 -0500) ----*
> | The use of USE_ make file variable should conform to what bsd.port.mk
> | says, IMHO.
> |
> | | pkgconfig could be extracted from the USE_GNOME stuff, and it could
> | | even maintained by someone else than the FreeBSD gnome team, but the
> | | FreeBSD gnome team is doing a good job at maintaining it, and
> | | there's no benefit in extracting pkgconfig from USE_GNOME.
> |
> | I am not sure I agree with you -- but why would this matter, right?
> ,--- You/Florent (Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:21:15 +0000) ----*
> | Please send patches. Kthxbye.
>
> Does this mean that you agree with me in principle and if I send you
> patches, there is a high probability they will he accepted (provided
> they work, of course)?
>
> Thank you, good bye,

In principle yes. Now you do have to understand that this is a lot of
boring work and you'll need approval from portmgr@, not just me.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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