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Quoting Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:52:37PM -0500, User Ota wrote:
> > I was browsing around looking for alternatives to vnc, and tried to 
> > experiment with FreeNX.  I got this working with Debian, but I notice 
> > that the port is marked as broken, reason being it fails to build wit 
> > X.org 7.2.
> > 
> > I have package X.Org 7.3 installed.
> > 
> > This will probably sound a little idiotic, but does the port fail to 
> > build against any version of X.org 7.2 and higher, or is it just marked 
> > broken for general purposes (regardless of the fact it says it doesn't 
> > build properly with v7.2)?
> 
> Assuming your talking about net/nxserver it would be better to ask the
> maintainer.  I've CC'ed him on this, but it won't hurt to remove the
> BROKEN line and try it for yourself?

good plan. and if it builds, _test it_ ... i've been able to get past enough 
errors that it builds, but it still doesn't operate correctly. if you get it to 
build and the pieces all work properly, let us know.