On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:47:07AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > > Maybe xbase-clients in general could be further split to separate things > > that don't need all this font and OpenGL stuff. But xauth should be the > > first to go. > > It's being discussed these days and might be done in the "near" future. > xauth is planned to be in its own package. > See > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070505.002151.a200d96f.en.html > and the current split plan at > http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xbase-clients-split.txt
Is there any particular reason why this isn't Cc:ed to the BTS? :) One thing that I would add is that it's not clear whether this would be a source+binary split, or just binary. I went looking upstream, and noticed that these programs are each in their own subtree under git.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/ (list visible at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/ ) xbase-clients currently appears to be a semi-random subset of those. Given that these days both the drivers and the libraries are split, I think that we would actually do the world a service if we stopped scheming how to bump several programs into a smaller number of packages, and just Xu'ed the whole thing. Pseudo-packages can exist to bump associated binary packages together for the users' benefit, but there's no real reason to keep anything else together. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
