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On Friday 21 May 2004 11:10, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> * "Pedro F. Giffuni" [Fr, 21 Mai 2004 at 04:22 GMT]:
> > I appreciate the great work that has been done lately to support the
> > X.org server, but I recall there was a working port of Xfree86 4.4. Any
> > *technical* reason why it hasn't been committed?
>
> Hi, thanks for raising this discussion, From my testing, I think there
> are no technical reasons, that it can not be committed within 24 hours.

I do think that having one X11 server(+libraries) in ports instead of two=20
(which on top of all else share lots of code and will make it supereasy for=
=20
users to get messy, mixed installations) is a good thing - and that one=20
package should be X.org - for technical reasons.

=2D-=20
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