Are you guys having it on for sys admin day ?! I hope your joking..
X11 is a massive subsystem in its own right, it should be segregated
in its own right.
You can `visualize` the file system structure as two distinct
categories; Core - {kernel, shell}, X11 {Core, X11}.
This is, at least, how I like to see it.
I believe mostly everyone is aware that Solaris puts X11 under
/usr/X11 and few who do not (easy to fix a -L/-R pair).
There is *very* little gained if anything at all considering the time
needed to make the changes, Do we have *far* more pressing things at
hand at the moment,
example, GEM, xcb, etc.. integration and much much more !
For example, users care about VT support far more then these kinds of,
imho, pointless changes. (I'm aware VT is coming soon, its just a
example).
This is my *strong* view,
Thanks for your time,
Edward O'Callaghan.
2009/7/31 Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Alan
> Coopersmith<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>> ? The package generation step should be kept sufficiently separate,
>>> ? as it is today, to easily plug-in other package mechanisms.
>>
>> I'm planning on removing the SVR4 package definitions and the script
>> to build them from our gate when we do the move, and am considering
>> having a 'ips-package' target in the Makefiles to generate the ips
>> packages from the Makefiles instead of a separate script to simplify
>> things from the current gate build, but am still planning on having
>> everything installed to a proto area from which you can generate
>> packages in any format you see fit, since that's still needed to
>> bootstrap the later phases of the build with the headers and libraries
>> built in the earlier phases.
>
> ? Yes this will be good.
>
>>
>> (Despite certain people's encouragement, I'm not planning on throwing
>> ?the entire build system away and switching to spec files for instance.
>> ?I do have limits for how many moving parts I'm willing to try changing
>> ?at once in the engine while the bus is still driving down the highway.)
>
> ? The current Makefile system is fine. Migrating that to spec files will be
> ? a lot of work.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
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