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From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
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Murray Stokely wrote:

>   Yet another version of FreeBSD that is shipped with stable, working,
> and useful third party packages.

Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers!

> The only alternative to this backout is to delay the release and prolong
> the code-freeze until at least mid-February while all of the dependent
> ports are updated, and all of the bugs in this massive piece of software
> are exposed.

Well, I can think of three alternatives:

- have a separate XFree86-devel port, with its name indicating that it is
  unstable
- from the changes between 4.1.0 and 4.2.0, choose a few and incorporate
  them in the port as patches
- leave things the way they were, because few (no?) ports depend on
  XFree86-4 but rather XFree86-4-Server, XFree86-4-libraries, etc., all of
  which stayed at 4.1.0.

Perhaps when this kind of circumstance happens again, these possibilities
could be considered.
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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