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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--nextPart1458870.dueZByeuai Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1458870.dueZByeuai Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCvpoNXhc68WspdLARAiirAJ0XNtuxI9bAmtsIOb7+osh2lrYhpQCgoJzr ZUoptrXypYsPt3P6H+eV80U= =gUqB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1458870.dueZByeuai--
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