X11

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Apr 25, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote:

>> *delurk*
>
> Being curious by nature, what does this mean ?

It means he's no longer lurking.

>> I'd like to eventually submit these for inclusion in MacPorts to  
>> replace the broken xorg port that currently exists.  As it stands,  
>> I wasn't able to figure out how to build more than one module (each  
>> of which needs a separate configure / make / make install step) per  
>> portfile, so I have dozens of dozens of portfiles out there.   
>> Building a replacement for X11.app takes > 200 modules, and I don't  
>> really want to dump that many portfiles into the main collection.
>
> Being curious by nature, isn't it the goal of modular x11, to be be  
> modular ?  just asking.

As Ben pointed out, there's modular and then there's insane.  I don't  
think we want 200 ports just for X11 and Ben is not suggesting that he  
wants to maintain that many, either (that would be insanity +  
insanity).   I think the break-down he's proposed is a good compromise  
between modular and manageable and, given that we have absolutely no  
X.org port maintainer at all, a significant improvement over where we  
are now!

- Jordan