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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