[Lunar-bugs] [Lunar Linux 0000403]: xfree86 fonts installation stage should be split up

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http://bugs.lunar-linux.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000403
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Reporter:                   sofar
Handler:                    
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Project:                    Lunar Linux
Bug ID:                     0000403
Category:                   moonbase
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   none
Status:                     confirmed
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Date Submitted:             2003-11-03 21:37 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-02-23 22:27 GMT
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Summary:                    xfree86 fonts installation stage should be split up
Description: 
right now 50-70% of compile time on xfree86 is wasted on the font routine,
even though no architecture specific code is being handled. A recompile of
the binary components is therefore slowed down enormously, and at too much
expenses. We should remove all the cruft from xfree86 and make it a
separate module, that reduces compile times on second and further
compiles.
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 nhudson - 2003-11-04 20:51 GMT 
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I will work towads this for the next release of Xfree86, I agree they
should be split up in 2 seperate modules.  the next version of X will
prolly have around 8-9 source packages which now I believe its 7.  We
could split it up into 3 diffrent modules really which would really help
out.

1: Xserver, Drivers and Libs
2: Fonts
3: Docs

This would mean less download time which for me atm is a big plus here.

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 caslca - 2003-11-05 17:30 GMT 
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May i suggest another thing to put separately for reducing compile times:
xfree-drm. If you recompile the kernel, the whole xfree has to be
recompiled just so that the drm modules are compiled against the new
kernel (total waste of time)

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 sofar - 2004-02-23 22:27 GMT 
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unassigning, nhudson: can you transfer this bug to someone interested (if
someone feels like it, please take up this bug)