[request] xorg-server with Xvnc

Question

I have read the other topic (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … light=xvnc) concerning this. I was going to create a new vnc package with Xvnc, but when I started reading through the README that comes with Real VNC I realized I don't have the time to get it all straightened out. I've never built a package for Arch before (indeed, have just started using Arch) and am not sure what the most efficient way of creating the package would be. I was hoping to create a package that depends on the already available vnc package; the new one would just include the vnc.so module for X. That was until I learned the whole X server needs to be built at the same time as the vnc.so module. That really complicates learning how to build this package.
I would use x11vnc but it doesn't want to work properly. My Gnome session is supposed to start it when I login, but it isn't. I would prefer to be able to use the vnc.so module any way.

Answer 1

ok, so i'm almost embarassed to post this.  it's actually pretty trivial.  nevertheless, might as well finish what i've started.
re-statement of the problem:
1) xorg-server 1.5.3 depends on hal and evdev in order to provide input hotplugging.
2) input hotplugging can be turned off, as decsribed here: Arch Wiki Xinput Hotplugging Page.  however, x still requires libhal.so.1 at runtime or it fails.  (it took me ages of googling to figure out that this is indeed the case.)
3) therefore, xorg-server must be rebuilt without hal if you'd like to run v.1.5.3 without installing hal.
how-to correct it:
1) sync abs tree
2) copy xorg-server from the abs tree to your local build directory
3) remove 'hal' and 'xf86-input-evdev' from the depends array
4) change --enable-config-{hal,dbus} to --disable-config-{hal,dbus}  (apparently the server has *some* support for input hotplugging through dbus without hal.  apparently, it also sucked.  so my method is to turn off both, entirely.)
5) makepkg
6) pacman -U
7) add xorg-server to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf.  the next time xorg-server is upgraded, pacman -Syu will give you a warning and the opportunity to exit.  this is your notice to rebuild and upgrade your local xorg-server.
8?) i suppose you could go through the patches that are applied to xorg-server and figure out which aren't needed.  that would be all neat and clean, but probably not necessary.