On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:52 +0200, Andreas Vögele wrote: > Here's yet another proposal. > > * The port attached to the end of this message is named "emacs" instead > of "emacs22". It conflicts with "emacs21". I think that there's no > need to support different Emacs versions in the ports tree. Naming > the port "emacs" eases package updates to newer Emacs versions.
No problems here. > * The port isn't split into -main and -el. I don't see the point. > Users who are low on disk space can use mg oder jmacs, i.e. joe. Bandwidth's more of a problem than disk space. emacs-el weighs in at 10 +M. The emacs-el subpackage will rarely need a patch-level update, whereas the emacs-main package will probably need several. With separate packages users can update emacs without unnecessarily redownloading the files that would otherwise be in the -el package. This benefits both users and OpenBSD package mirrors. > * By default Emacs is built against GTK+ since GTK+ will be the default > toolkit in Emacs 23. There are two flavors: I agree that gtk should be the default going forward. > * no_x11: Don't build against any widget set. Don't build against > image libraries like jpeg and png which arent't of much use on a > text console. BTW, does anybody actually use the no_x11 flavor? > > * athena: Build against the Athena widget set instead of GTK+. This > flavor will provide minimal GUI support. For example, when Emacs 23 > is released the default flavor will support librsvg, dbus and all > the other bells and whistles that the upstream developers are > currently adding to Emacs. The athena flavor, on the other hand, > will be kept small. I agree with the above specifications of flavors (GTK with all the bells and whistles, athena for minimalist X). I don't think no_x11 should be dropped. It's useful on servers and the FLAVOR doesn't require much maintenance. Once emacs-22.2 goes live I'll install the no_x11 flavor on my home server. I created a separate (default) gtk2 flavor because that forces upgraders to make a decision. Otherwise they might be surprised upgrading from athena-default emacs-21.4.tgz and finding a ton of dependencies pulled in for gtk-default emacs-22.2.tgz. Brad Walker
