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RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Ian Burrell" <iburrell at znark dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:00:17 +1000
- Subject: RE: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Burrell [mailto:iburrell@znark.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:49 AM
> Is it possible to have multiple packages in a subdirectory and
> setup.hint file? Or does each package needs its own directory?
Each package needs it's own directory.
> For a
> hierarchy, I was thinking: base, devel, doc, fonts, and progs
> (for the
> optional servers).
I'm not clear not the hierarchy there - that reads like a list to me.
You've got two clauses you can independently use to make a hierarchy and
package dependencies - category:(i.e. the devel tarball belongs in
XFree86 and in Devel) and requires: (i.e. the server package requires
the fonts and the programs and ...)
> There are a couple of refinements that can be made to the
> repackaging.
> First, the 75dpi fonts make up the bulk (10MB) of the fonts
> package and
> aren't strictly required. They could be made their own package. The
> miscellaneous fonts could be folded into the base package so there is
> only one required package.
>
> Second, move the man3 man pages into the devel package. Also,
> move the
> .a files in /usr/X11R6/lib into devel. That reduces the base
> package by
> a couple MB.
Those refinements can be made at any point - there's no need to have it
perfect on first release. Setup.exe is quite capable of handling files
moving from one package to another now.
Rob