X.org (experimental) ports moving to LOCALBASE soon

[Florent Thoumie]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:16:09AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>> On 1/9/07, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:31:55AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now that most ports are X11BASE-clean, I'm going to move X.org ports to
>>>>> ${LOCALBASE} (as opposed to ${X11BASE}, where they live now). So expect
>>>>> a commit talking about X.org PREFIX in the next few days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, I advise using git-whatchanged and git-log before you make
>>>> any
>>>>> upgrade of your installed ports. The prefix change should need a
>>>>> PORTREVISION bump but I won't do it (cause I'm too lazy), so you'll
>>>> have
>>>>> to type something like "portupgrade -R xorg\*".
>>>>>
>>> [SNIP]
>>>
>>>> My own list--(it'd be great if other people give their opinions
>>>> too--SirDice, if you're reading this, it's a start at our xorg-lite) :)
>>> Um, speaking of xorg-lite, I was thinking a bit about doing an
>>> option-based xorg install, where you can choose what to install at
>>> config-time via the ncurses-based framework.  The options will
>>> propably mostly be related to drivers and maybe some apps in that
>>> case.  The drawback is that we might get horrible Makefiles because of
>>> all options and so on...  But anyway, what do you guys think?  I'm not
>>> even sure if it's doable, it's just an idea.
>> I was thinking of writing a default set of dependencoes and giving the
>> opportunity to select the exact bits you want to install (like a USE
>> flag). Assuming there's like ~300 ports, I'm not sure to go the OPTIONS way.
> 
> If there are 300 ports, OPTIONS is absolutly not the way to go.  The
> dialog on the ghostscript ports is an example of how much this sucks.

Actually, it will probably be per-metaport, so it's more in the likes of
50/60 selectable entries (which still is a no-no).

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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