Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:17:12 -0500 From: James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> Cc: bf2006a@yahoo.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <4985A0D8.1050603@mammothcheese.ca> In-Reply-To: <E1LTTyb-000JdZ-BQ@daland.home> References: <165364.55705.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <E1LTQHd-000HV7-UR@daland.home> <4984F1C7.9040706@mammothcheese.ca> <E1LTTyb-000JdZ-BQ@daland.home>
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I agree with all you say. This sort of thing is the achilles heel of ports. I'd like to see a beta port exist side by side with the old version, for massive ports like X, KDE, etc, until things stabilize. Alex Goncharov wrote: > No -- a patch might (*should*, for this kind of a disruptive change) > be put together: I'd install it on my systems, I'd try it and report > problems, I'd revert back -- easily. This is for many "I"s willing to > be the testers -- we'd repeat this again as many times as necessary, > before the commit. -- James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca> http://www.mammothcheese.ca
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