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Subject: Re: [forum] Announce: xf86lite project: xplit xf86 into small pieces
From: Kris Kennaway <kris () obsecurity ! org>
Date: 2005-06-06 22:51:44
Message-ID: 20050606225144.GA84606 () xor ! obsecurity ! org
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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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