Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:14:20 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> To: linimon@lonesome.com Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/131124: x11/xorg - New xorg 7.4 hangs until mouse is moved when AllowEmptyInput turned off Message-ID: <20090204.181420.172787686.hanche@math.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <20090204161108.GA7474@soaustin.net> References: <200902041530.n14FU3QL074698@freefall.freebsd.org> <20090204161108.GA7474@soaustin.net>
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+ linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon): > Unfortunately the contents of the Severity and Priority fields in > the PR database have suffered from "grade inflation" and as such > have lost their meaning long ago. > > Leaving them in the database is, at this point, just a bug. Ah. Thanks for letting me know. > In any case, with FreeBSD ports being all volunteer-driven, there's > really no requirements that we can put on the volunteers to > prioritize one PR over another. It really depends on how motivated > they are as to how they allocate their time. I have used free software long enough to understand this well. Still, if nobody speaks up, said volunteers may be left with a false impression that the problems are minor and don't need urgent fixing. So I like to whine just a little once in a while, but I'll keep it to a minimum. Now I have a plan to work around this on my own system. How does this sound? I don't want to downgrade all my ports to before this happened. So I think I would create an alternative ports tree, cvsup'd from a suitable date, and build just the X server and its required ports in that tree, maybe even install them in an alternate location (i.e., not in /usr/local). Since the server is run from just one place, this should be a minor adminstrative burden. I only need to set a small handful of environment variables to make this happen, right? - Harald
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