From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 11:49:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B10C16A4D9 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:49:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sffwd0.suedfactoring.de (port-212-202-224-251.reverse.qsc.de [212.202.224.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A5F43D4C for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:49:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de) Received: from pcs28.suedfactoring.de (pcs28.SUEDFAC.COM [10.2.1.228]) ESMTP id i5UBmwi4031316; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:48:58 +0200 From: "Axel S. Gruner" To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:50:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200406301246.37912.axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de> <20040630110629.GA54498@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040630110629.GA54498@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406301350.46960.axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: Using xorg instead of XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:49:35 -0000 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