Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:24:15 +0200 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: ray@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Core Team <core@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NEW_XORG and vt(4) in stable branches Message-ID: <86r478rmuo.fsf@orwell.Elisa> In-Reply-To: <201402121443.44313.jhb@freebsd.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:43:44 -0500") References: <201402121443.44313.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes: > Our current feeling is that we would like to not enable NEW_XORG by default > for the packages for a given src branch until vt(4) has been merged to that > branch. We do not think that vt(4) needs to be enabled by default in the > branch; just having it available as an option as it is in HEAD would be > sufficient. Our understanding is that merging vt(4) in its current-ish form > to stable/10 and stable/9 is quite feasible and not a major nightmare. We do > not feel that it is necessary to merge to stable/8 as drm2 isn't merged to > stable/8 either. (Our assumption is that stable/8 will just stay with the old > Xorg and the ports tree will have to support old Xorg until 8.x support in > ports is EOL'd.) I'd just like to add another data point with my kde@ hat: we're about to update the KDE ports in the tree to 4.12.2, and since the 4.11 series x11/kde4-workspaces requires NEW_XORG to build (it uses symbols which are not present in the Mesa version used with WITH_NEW_XORG=no). This means there are not going to be any packages for kde4-workspace (and ports that depend on it) until WITH_NEW_XORG defaults to "on" in the 9 and 10 in the pkg cluster, and "pkg install kde" will not work unless people are using -HEAD. So for us, the sooner vt(4) gets merged into 9 and 10, the better, and I guess people on 8 who only use binary packages will not have much choice but to build some ports with WITH_NEW_XORG themselves.
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