Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:50:46 +0200 From: "Axel S. Gruner" <axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using xorg instead of XFree86 Message-ID: <200406301350.46960.axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de> In-Reply-To: <20040630110629.GA54498@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200406301246.37912.axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de> <20040630110629.GA54498@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Hi Matthew, On Wednesday 30 June 2004 13:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Probably. It seems that most of the Linux distros have switched or > are switching to it, and the Unix vendors like Sun always were behind > X.Org anyway. > There is has been a discussion on the x11 and docs mailing lists > covering all of the whys and wherefores. A good place to start is > here: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200406051411.04259.linimon thanks for your quick answer and that link. > Eventually something like what you propose will be added to > bsd.port.mk or whichever makefile is appropriate. Until then, you're > going to have to maintain your patches in parallel to the ordinary > development of the ports tree. > On the whole though, you can get by without fiddling in the makefiles > if you're prepared to run pkgdb(1) to fix up the dependencies after > the fact. > The X.Org stuff is still considered experimental at the moment. As > more and more people start to use it and it gets well debugged, the > ports infrastructure around it will be improved. Ok, fine. XFree86 is still fine for most of the users out there (and just a few of them looking at stuff like "licenses"...). So, i can live with a "pkgdb -F", or a temporary change of bsd.port.mk. Well, a second one, like a "bsd.port.mk.xorg" in the tree (which is also up-to date) would be also nice, renaming that one after a cvsup would made it a lot easier for the moment. Cheers, asg
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