X.org (experimental) ports moving to LOCALBASE soon

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:01:21AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:31:55AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well, I am/was. The idea is that even if you only install the necessary
> things you need, loads of ports depend on xorg-* metaports, so if you
> install other ports, chances are it will bring all xorg-apps for example
> (or all xorg-fonts, but not all the servers and drivers). I can't fix
> all ports to only detect the X apps they need, but I can give to
> experimented users the choice to make their own selection. This is an
> issue I'll try to address soon (like well, this week probably, between
> two Zelda Twilight Princess sessions).

I think we all realize, or at least have an idea, of how much work this
is, so don't feel badly about delays.


> 
> > It might be worthwhile to put a link on the wiki to Dru's guide to
> > upgrading, and maybe <modest cough> even my own.  
> > 
> 
> I think I already thanked you and everybody who reported failures (and
> success sometimes) but it doesn't hurt to do it again, so thank you.
> Testing takes a long time and I definitely couldn't have done everything
> by myself.


You have been thanking all of us publicly, yes.


> 
> That said, while I like people testing and stuff, I definitely think
> that centralizing documentation is a good thing. IMHO it would have been
> a good thing to give a mention to the wiki page saying that it is the
> reference to upgrade. Should your document (or Dru's) get stale, I still
> can update the wiki page with new information (and mention when it's not
> needed anymore, hopefully RSN).

Both Dru's page and my page link to the wiki towards the very beginning
of our respective articles.  That almost goes without saying.  

> 
> 
> Haven't really planned to spend so much time on this but this is
> necessary, so someone had to do it :-)

The old joke, that with computers, calculate how much time you need,
then triple it for an optimistic estimate. 




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