100s of xorg ports, will there be an xorg-base port?

Niclas Zeising niclas.zeising at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 23:06:27 UTC 2007


Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be nice if you could make an xorg-base port which will 
> have the minimal ports installed. Most of the programs like xeyes etc. 
> are not needed, it is ridiculous to install a port for each!
> 
> Plus, most people are not happy to add ~400 more ports to their FreeBSD 
> boxes. I even read that somebody is planning to change to Linux because 
> of this mess.
> 
> Is this a planned change? I think the whole idea of xorg going to 
> seperate packages was reducing the size and modularize xorg. When we 
> install all anyhow, makes no sense at all.
> 
> Thanks,
> Evren

Why not make your own xorg-base?  After all, it is modularized, and you 
can add/remove the different parts as you want (mostly).  The source to 
the ports tree is completely free and you are free to make your own 
changes. But please post it here.

What is the mess you are talking about? I know upgrading from 6.9 to 7.2 
was a little hassle, but overall i think flz and the people with him did 
a _HUGE_ amount of work, both to get everything working and to make the 
upgrade as smooth as possible.

This is a very planned change, and a huge leap forward for FreeBSD as a 
desktop OS. With the new xorg you can use OpenGL accelerated wms and 
much more.  If you think a lot of ports is installed unnecessarily, 
modify the makefiles to suit you, or remove the apps you won't need. 
the xorg metaport still contains roughly the same as the old one, only 
now everything is a separate port instead of a big kludge.

Regards!
//Niclas
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