On Tuesday 27 December 2005 18:55, Peter wrote: > Thanks all for the feedback. It's important to realize that "userland" in > this case is under 1 minute compile time. One of the modules, glx, doesn't > even get compiled. A poster on this thread noted that glx took 14 > seconds -- it just copies closed source libraries. Here it takes a time variable between 30 seconds and 2 minutes depending on the load of the machine. It's always things that gets copied, overwriting the extended attributes for pax (well I think pax counts only the executables, I'm wondering if paxctl would work on .so files, but I don't think so).
For sure, -xconfig and -settings are not going to be as simple to merge into the single ebuild for the paxctl thing above at least, not counting that many people (included me) don't really need -settings or -xconfig, and just use the default. Current situation seems to me one of the most clean possible, way simpler than using nvidia's manual installation, and for what I've seen with users, it's not _so_ difficult to understand. > Here, the intent is to simplify things, remove steps and ebuilds, and make > it more user friendly and require less interaction. I already said that FreeBSD and Linux modules have _nothing_ in common and merging all in one ebuild is going to give me an headache to fix it. I'm not going to drop the FreeBSD support tho. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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