Re: [Fink-devel] X11: rootless v. base

[Max Horn]

My take on this is as follows:


As Torrey pointed out, the seperation of the X11 package is largely historical. In fact, both Jeff and I in the past attempted to merge it back into one package. However, this is not something as trivial as you might think - it caused various update & transition problems. So if we decided to do that merge, please please, *first* test it out before anybody puts packages for this into unstable!


As to which package should provide X11, or whether to have seperate -base / -rootless packages: I personally don't have a strong opinion now, I need to think a bit more about it. But it would seem that indeed nowadays we should consider merging the packages back into one, if that is possible w/o high techincal difficulties. I understand that argument that some people might not want the server part to save 4 MB. However, compared to the problems this causes for many other people, I would think we should (for now) choose to sacrifice that rather small advantage for the sake of the greater good.


On the long run, when it comes to disk space and efficency, we should maybe now start thinking about another thing: many (most? all?) fink packages include debug information and are compiled with the -g option. While this eases debugging, it adds a lot of disk space overhead. Depending on the binary, stripping them reduces the factor of binaries dramatically. I am talking about factor 2-10 ! E.g. astrip goes from 8 MB to 800 KB...

Alas, that is a different discussion :-)


Cheers,

Max
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