Re: Announce: xf86lite project: xplit xf86 into small pieces

[Kris Kennaway <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've just started a project called x86lite:
> 
>     http://wiki.metux.de:7000/wiki/index.php/Xf86lite
> 
> I'm gonna splitting the large xf86 tree into small pieces, si
> single packages can be built individally, so we do not need
> the whole xf86 if just only parts (ie xlib) are required.
> This also includes making the whole stuff completely cross-
> compile'able and support completly automated builds.
> 
> One of the first tasks is to remove foreign packages currently 
> included in the tree (ie. expat, imake, fontconfig).
> 
> I'll supply patches for individual packages and scripts for 
> removing unnecessary stuff from the tree (so we do not need to 
> uncompress a several-hundres MB tree for just some libs) - this is
> extremly useful for automated (mass-)building where it would be 
> too hard to recycle the sourcetree.
> 
> Contributions are always welcomed :)
> 
> If some folks are interested in it, I'll set up a mailing list
> for this project.

You might like to take a look at the FreeBSD XFree86 ports, which
already build and package it in smaller chunks.

Kris

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