http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140723142224

Contributed by tbert on Wed Jul 23 14:22:19 2014 (GMT)
from the #define-ing-progress dept.

Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@), who is the mad Frenchman who maintains Xenocara, writes in to share his g2k14 experience:

> My main projects (multitouch, dhcpv6) didn't make any progress as I was distracted into X sets tweaks at the request of a few other hackers.

> After much discussion this only led to the addition of ucpp in base (after a short detour by /usr/xenocara/app/xrdb-cpp) as /usr/libexec/auxcpp.
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> The reason is that xdrb (part of xbase which is required by many ports) needs a C pre-processor to run. But since gcc 4, /usr/bin/cpp is in the comp set because it's just another invocation of the full gcc. So xbase required the comp set to be installed.
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> This annoys 2 kind of people: those with appliances with small disks and the paranoid ones who don't want to provide a C compiler to attackers (which may be a good idea, when looking at components of the [windigo operation](http://www.welivesecurity.com/2014/03/18/operation-windigo-the-vivisection-of-a-large-linux-server-side-credential-stealing-malware-campaign/)).
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> So auxcpp is now part of the base set, and the depency of xbase on comp is gone. The X sets will stay in their current state for 5.6.
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> Otherwise, I've done a few updates on xenocara components. The xenocara tree is now mostly ready for 5.6.
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> I've nevertheless enjoyed the hackathon. Thanks to Mitja and his team for the organisation and to all foundation donors for the funding!