Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Unfortunately, the method that XOrg has come up with sucks. 200 separate CMMI
packages is not reasonable. They need to package them up similar to KDE's
packages. They make Gnome look like a small task.
Yeah, you are right, it is unreasonable. Does anyone know if each
package will be separately updated? I am assuming yes (why else would
they split it up like that! ;)), which means just making one big
Xorg-7.0.tar.bz2 file on the lfs ftp mirrors would be difficult also. I
am dreading maintaining that many packages on the ftp mirrors, even with
my scripts. :-/
Issue a wget to fetch all the packages.
Run a script to CMMI the packages in the correct order.
Describe what the script does.
Write documentation page(s) that summarizes each package.
Sounds good! It is probably the best solution.
As a side note, isn't there a way to cache the configure tests so the
system doesn't have to test for presence or absence of feature/programs
every time?
Would be nice, but I don't know of any way to do it.
Justin
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