From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 22:39:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4068516A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-06.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DCE443D48 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:39:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: (qmail 16376 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2005 22:39:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warren.shinji.nq.nu) (202.161.9.197) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 25 Jun 2005 22:39:34 -0000 From: Warren To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:37:07 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506260837.08911.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel O'Connor Subject: Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:39:37 -0000 On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 7:45 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > But the plain fact of the matter is that the Open Source community > isn't going to tolerate what xfree86 tried doing, and the users of > open source, which is you and I, are not served by splitting development > between 2 forks of X Windows. The amount of new video hardware that is > coming out and needs drivers is increasing, drivers are getting more and > more complex to write, and manufacturers are just as bad as they always > have been about assisting in video driver development. The sooner that > xfree86 goes away and dies the better for the community in the long > run. I dont want to get in the middle of a pissing contest yous seem to have going as to who is right or wrong or which X should be kept. The fact is i simply wished to know why the pkg was failing and how to correct it, nothing more nothing less. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu