[oe] RFC: diet-x11, small-x11 and fat-x11

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Tue Feb 6 10:59:05 UTC 2007


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pHilipp Zabel schreef:
> On 2/6/07, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
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>> Koen Kooi schreef:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose to split diet-x11 and libx11 into the following:
>>>
>>> diet-x11: as small as possible, without stuff like cms and xkb
>>> small-x11: small, but with cms and xkb, usefull for highend palmtops and small settop-boxes
>>> fat-x11: biggest version, usefull for big-bad-workstation images.
>>>
>>> what do you think about it?
>> Nobody is thinking something?
> 
> I was thinking I don't like the diet/small/fat naming, you are mixing metaphors.
> small/medium/big I'd understand,
> or diet/light/supersize or
> slender/chubby/fat...
> I thought I'd better keep that to myself :) Oh well...
> 
> One thing I'd like to see would be a different package name for all
> three of them, so we can actually have all versions in the feeds
> (currently both libx11 and diet-x11 build packages with the same
> name).

However annoying, it is a feature which we can exploit. If we take care that PR_small-x11
< PR_medium-x11 < PR_big-x11 we can split those into different feeds containing libx11 +
dependant apps.

regards,

Koen

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