>> I'm not expecting to pull much of the userland from OI in the long term.
>> I certainly don't anticipate building JDS, for example - I'll build Xfce from
>> scratch instead.
>
> Before starting Xfce from scratch, look at spec-files-extra, pkgtool can
> create SVR4 packages and there are specs for Xfce. Currently slightly
> unmaintained but still better than start from scratch. Some Solaris
> patches are there.

I know how to build Xfce, I've been supporting it on Solaris 10
for some years now.

Something like pkgtool and SFE is definitely necessary. Package
builds need to be automated. I've always found the SFE process
to be quite hard going, and the spec files I need at the moment are
either completely absent or out of date. But I'm still trying to get
all the missing base pieces (primarily from JDS, such as glib/
gtk/pango/cairo and friends) building correctly.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/


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