Re: Native X.Org: testers wanted

[Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost>]

Hi,

Forgive me if this not appropriate offer, but should NetBSD include all 
of "meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps" packages as part of NetBSD's native Xorg?


For an end user below ones (and dependent ones) are required -at 
least!... I'm personally using modular Xorg and has instaled following 
packages from pkgrsc:


1- modular-xorg-server
2- xinit
3- xf86-input-keyboard
4- xf86-input-mouse
5- xf86-video-vesa + xf86-video-nv
6- font-cursor-misc
7- font-misc-misc
8- dejavu-ttf (an optional true type font)*


According to these, only above packages and 
"meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers" seems to be required for native one too.



Regards,
Cem



Steven M. Bellovin, 09/23/08 04:23:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:11:08 -0400
> Izaac <izaac%setec.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>   
> > It is my sole point that because something can be done doesn't
> > necessarily mean it should be done.  Keeping Xorg in the src tree
> > requires an enormous investment in maintenance.  It has already been
> > tried once, with the result of atrophy and obsolescence for XFree86.
> > Now, the old arguments have vanished and we even have a framework for
> > handling third party software.  Why repeat history?
> >     
>
> For fun, I built all of modular xorg:
>
>         meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps
>         meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers
>         meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-fonts
>         meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-libs
>
> on a 4.0 system with no packages installed -- I wanted some idea of the
> effort involved.  The total: 207 packages.  More importantly, a number
> of them are not part of xorg per se, most notably perl.  If memory
> serves, the standard perl build environment doesn't permit
> cross-compilation.
>
> I've attached the list of packages...
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>