Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread Dean Lombardo
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > > @ It is large. Ok, so it's 44MB (the first poster had the size > completely wrong -- probably had some distfiles or work/ subdirs > lying around). That's less than 20KB per port. Ok, so you can > keep only the Makefile, or even less, and le

a two-level port system?

1999-05-27 Thread Dean Lombardo
I apologise if this has been discussed before. The ports collection seems to be growing at alarming rates. On one hand, this is very good; on the other, it has the unfortunate downside of having to store ten billion little files on one's hard drive. The current size of the ports collection is 30

threads and Xlibs?

1999-05-16 Thread Dean Lombardo
Why does X have multi-thread support disabled by default? Quite a few programs (e.g. freeamp) give nasty "Xlib: unexpected async reply" errors due to making X calls from more than one thread. Now that threads and libc_r are part of the system (and have been for a while), perhaps Xlibs should be b