[forum] Announce: xf86lite project: xplit xf86 into small pieces

[Kris Kennaway]

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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> I've just started a project called x86lite:
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>     http://wiki.metux.de:7000/wiki/index.php/Xf86lite
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> 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.
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> One of the first tasks is to remove foreign packages currently=20
> included in the tree (ie. expat, imake, fontconfig).
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> I'll supply patches for individual packages and scripts for=20
> removing unnecessary stuff from the tree (so we do not need to=20
> uncompress a several-hundres MB tree for just some libs) - this is
> extremly useful for automated (mass-)building where it would be=20
> too hard to recycle the sourcetree.
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> Contributions are always welcomed :)
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> 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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