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On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> I agree, but I am not sure how in the ports land we do an application testing in
> general.  That is, I am sure there will be a lot of testers if the port update
> is actually committed :-) but I am not sure how to test it in advance (given all
> the possible hardware and software configurations).

Why not just create a new xorg-server177 or xorg-server-devel port as 
has been done with other ports?

Assuming no other dependencies, or at least a clear list of what to 
rebuild in the pkg-message, it would allow people to test the new 
xorg-server and easily revert to the old one if needed.  Mesa, too... 
and what was the other port talked about recently... libdrm?