[OpenIndiana-discuss] Pending Desktop features for 2017.04 need volunteers

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Pending Desktop features for...:

> We had a stream of discussion about Solaris on this mailing-list and other
> long threads about bullshit nitpicking

This is the -discuss list, not the dev list, so I guess my past experience
with mailing lists indicated that the topics would not always be as
focused as a dev list.

I'm really not certain what other long threads you have identified as
bullshit nitpicking, but now I'm interested to review the list archives.

> while fixing code and packaging in
> OI could use such energy: surely there is room for real development.

Packaging was one area where I really thought I could contribute.  So
far I have successfully contributed one package (a font), and the
contribution process was far more difficult than I anticipated.  A large
part of that is because my familiarity is with older version control
systems like subversion, not with the git/github workflow.  I plan to
to try again with other software, but for now it will have to be the
simplest tasks.

I looked at this last week when you first posted about it:

>>>> - Migrate libjpeg dependencies to libjpeg-turbo:
>>>>  https://www.illumos.org/issues/7391

With the changes you've made to shared-macros.mk, aren't many of the
packages already rebuilding with libjpeg-turbo when the automated build
happens?

If that's true, isn't the main task to update the dependencies for each
of the listed packages, so they depend on libjpeg-turbo rather than the
IJG version?

Tim
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