Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 14:52:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future development of xorg port Message-ID: <20070520185211.GB41728@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070520123428.W19823@small> References: <20070520123428.W19823@small>
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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:39:41PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > Hi, > > since now we all did/are doing our monster xorg port upgrade, I > wonder how the future development of xorg is planned. > > - Will we permanently receive small upgrades of xorg modules by > tracking -STABLE ? > - Will there be kind of an xorg-devel port? > - Or do we wait for the next big complete upgrade to 7.3 ? In general the plan is to do something like option 3. xorg-devel will probably be too much work (need to fork an additional ~300 ports) and frequent small updates will introduce too much churn and introduce too many dependency problems. Kris
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