Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 22:24:13 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <anholt@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11 Makefile ports/x11/panoramixext Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist Message-ID: <1083993853.919.4.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20040508050030.GA4020@regency.nsu.ru> References: <200405072010.i47KAnoG032811@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040508050030.GA4020@regency.nsu.ru>
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On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 22:00, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:10:49PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > ... > > > New port: panoramixext 1.1 freedesktop.org: > > X PanoramiX extension headers > > > > Testing is encouraged, but please do not use these ports as dependencies until > > a plan is made for handling the transition from XFree86. > > What do you mean by "transition from XFree86" here, precisely? Is there > intention to prefer FDo's bits over XFree86, or just provide a coherent > way to choose between the two? If former, what's wrong with XFree86 so > such transition is a concern? I assume that it's not related to recent > license policy change in XFree86 camp, am I right? No, it's not the license change. It's that active development of libraries is going on at fd.o/X.Org, not XFree86, these days. We can only really have a single source for libraries because of packaging, so fd.o/x.org is the way to go I believe. As far as the server, we should be able to provide XFree86-4-Server and the X.Org server side-by-side just fine. (I wasn't around for the big fighting over the license, but I have to say I'm surprised FreeBSD is okay with the licensing terms on the server these days. Anyway, I'm not worried about it myself since I don't plan on touching the XFree86 server any more). -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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