[xwin-discuss] Obsolescence of /usr/X11 [PSARC/2009/482 FastTrack timeout 09/17/2009]

[Martin Bochnig]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Merging consolidations?   By the people who would be doing the work and
> responsible for maintaining it.   The criteria here would be "Does it
> make sense?" and the answer is clearly no - the cost would be too high,
> the benefit non-existent.


It was only an organizational question.
Obviously it makes no sense in this case.

I thought of it only because of Moinaks auto-builder (and my own
insufficient steps towards that direction a year ago).
Not combining consolidations for development purposes, just for
allowing external distributors to build _everything_ in one rush,
without interaction and during sleep.
I still do not understand all aspects of how Sun does this internally.

Every consolidation generates packages individually and just delivers
them into a spool area?
Is there no automated A-to-Z tool, that compiles everything at once
and then automatically combines the binary packages into a distro via
distro-constructor (or in the past: How was it done for SXCE?).

Sorry for being a bit OT.
But I saw it as a good moment to ask this.

Thanks.


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%martin bochnig