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Date:      Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:06:04 +0200
From:      Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
To:        Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dependency fixing for xorg stuff
Message-ID:  <40E90BEC.6060502@webonaut.com>
In-Reply-To: <opsam78o1m9aq2h7@mezz>
References:  <1088990415.987.9.camel@leguin> <opsam78o1m9aq2h7@mezz>

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Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:20:16 -0700, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote:
> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/xorg-conv-1.diff
> 
> 
> You can remove the fluxbox-devel and fluxbox in this diff. The  
> fluxbox-devel is no longer depend on XFree86-client. As for fluxbox 
> will  be remove too when maintainer approves or fluxbox-devel merges 
> into  fluxbox when 1.0 is released.
> 
> A question, how would you like me to deal with the libXrender? The  
> x11/gcursor, my port, will need the libXrender if xorg is installed. It  
> doesn't need this if XFree86-lib is installed. If you already have this  
> plan, then nevermind and I will wait.
> 

libXrender will be installed with xorg-libraries but not xrender.pc
there is already a (unverified) patch at X.org's bugzilla which seems to work.

you can take a look at it here:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=478

franz.

> Thanks for your works!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
>> The link above is a patch to fix up dependencies and make xorg the
>> default X for FreeBSD 5.2 and up.  It'll fix, XFree86-3 as well,
>> mostly.  Personally, I think we should remove XFree86 3.3.6 from the
>> tree because it's a waste of everyone's time.  People would be better
>> supported by current XFree86 or Xorg.  (The one exception being very old
>> cards that never got updated drivers because basically nobody has them,
>> which will likely perform about as well and have only feature tradeoffs
>> when using the vesa driver instead)
>>
>> It needs more review, then I'll forward to portmgr.
> 



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