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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:05:23 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed
Message-ID:  <200506261405.33587.lofi@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIENGFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIENGFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Sunday, 26. June 2005 01:18, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> If there was significant "product differentiation" between xfree86 and
> xorg, then there would be a reason to keep both.  Right now there is
> not and with the difficulty in X development, there won't soon be.

There's already quite a delta on the video driver level.

> Here's the litmus test - would you pull a popular port if it breaks on 4
> but not on 5?  'nuff said.

What does that prove? It wouldn't get pulled if it would break the other wa=
y=20
around either, but be marked BROKEN for the appropriate branch.

> The FreeBSD project agrees with me, if they did not then they would
> have rewritten the installer to make it optional which one to pick.

If it were possible to run software from binary packages built against Xorg=
 on=20
XFree86 (or vice-versa) hassle-free, that would be an option.

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