On 7/13/06, Dejan Lesjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:20, michael johnson wrote:
> I agree we should move a lot of software out of X11BASE but there
> will need to be a lot of work (esp. for gnome). I'm curious of the
> time frame in which xorg 7 will be committed to the tree? I'm not
> speaking for the entire freebsd gnome team but if we did decide
> to take on this task it would probably take several months to fully
> test and get everything working well in LOCALBASE. I think the
> major hurdle for us isn't moving everything to LOCALBASE it's
> more of the upgrade path people will have to take, having to
> rebuild all gnome components and all the bugs that will follow..

We certainly can't throw xorg 7 that installs in LOCALBASE in tree if that
would break entire gnome :-) Hopefully we can come up with transition that
would annoy users as well as maintainers the least. One option is to wait
with xorg until most ports that now install under X11BASE are converted.
Another one is perhaps to find out whether gnome for example would work
installed under X11BASE with xorg itself installed under LOCALBASE.
There's
possibility we add xorg-7 to X_WINDOW_SYSTEM flavours (as non-default
one),
default X11BASE to LOCALBASE in that case. Would that help with converting
and testing?


I might have taken your first email wrong, I was assuming you want to remove
X11BASE all together?

Moving xorg to LOCALBASE won't be a problem for gnome, I'm just saying
the gnome ports might stick around in X11BASE for a while unless
we (gnome team) get some motivation to move. We've talked about
moving gnome to LOCALBASE in the past but I think we've not attempted
this because it's quite a bit of work for not a whole lot of gain. Wanting
to remove X11BASE might be the kick we need.

Also gecko ports would probably stick around in X11BASE for a bit
due to the fact that most (if not all) gecko plugins and ports that depend
on a gecko are also heavly tied in to X11BASE.

Michael
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