Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:38:37 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Steffen Daode <sdaoden@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ4dsBBCJz-WCijWa%2Bf_xRQ7wmKOkhVgt%2BhEg2kLZ3dkcQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50577f0a.TlvZ/9QC1A0IFofPYai2MUvl@dietcurd.wild-life.local> References: <BLU0-SMTP510B16745B704C714268E2D5950@phx.gbl> <5057765F.4080001@an3e.de> <50577f0a.TlvZ/9QC1A0IFofPYai2MUvl@dietcurd.wild-life.local>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Steffen Daode <sdaoden@gmail.com> wrote: > |> Hi, > |> I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official > |> supported graphical environment. > > What i really miss compared to 4.* and 5.3 (and compared to NetBSD > and OpenBSD) is that there is a single package with a known name > that can be downloaded and unpacked and you have a X11 environment > to go. > > I have not searched the archives for the "when" and "why" of the > decision to drop it. But its absence really hurts me. Rant and rave to the Xorg developers. With the release of Xorg 7 they broke it up into a bazillion separate packages, each with their own development cycle, releases, packaging, etc. Xorg "releases" are now nothing more than a snapshot of the various sub-packages that's slightly bug/beta tested together. There's really no difference between Xorg development and Linux distro development. :( There's really nothing that FreeBSD devs can do about this unless they want to fork Xorg completely. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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