I'm JL MALET and I'm one of the maintainers of sorecer linux distribution
i'd like first to thank you for doing a such good job and as it seems it will continue ^_^
I hope that next releases will be as good as the planing.....
lets begin the real topic of this mail
I'm a distro maintainer and this distro is sorcerer, which is a source compiled distro.
as other packages XFree86 get compiled what sort out of 2 last year is some trouble because XFree86 provide some 3rd parties sources and compile them
such sources are for exemple Xft, freetype
what's wrong with this? lot trouble, not for me but for the users
why? because XFree86 releases are far less often than the included package which means that a bug fix in Xft for exemple won't be provided to end user until XFree86 release.....
we can't provide both compile script without generating conflicts (compilation issues, problem related to the order of compilations....)
so we can't provide end user a bug free box....
so 1 possibilitie offers to us 1)wait for you folks to release
this is troublesome..... because the end user is always harmed in this case.... a mozilla that expect the Xft bug to be fixed will ever crash for 3-6 months.....
I wonder why you still provide such sources builtin since it's not a good practice : the right one used from nearly every opensources projects is to let the user get and compile the dependencies and then build the package (and since sorcery do the dependencies traking for us....^_^)
for you providing 3rd parties source means bandwidth consuming too....
so that's the main goal of this mail : isn't it impossible to split the sources so that 3rd parties project get independant and build separatly?
for exemple a good choice sor my point of view could be :
a package to provide "core" of X11 : servers, utils that are required to have the servers running (drivers, keymaps compilers...), that are provided by you
a package to provide "utils" of X11 : xterms.... that is optional
other packages as you want, each should be independant and self compilable
3rd parties sources aren't provided : Freetype or Xft for exemple shouldn't be included but listed on web site as requirements or options
doing so will ensure a quality : every bugfix of 3rd parties are directly included when released.......
best regards MALET JL
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