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From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
To: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support
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On 2001.06.27 11:50 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/28458; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
> 
> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
> To: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with
> Linux X support
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:42:16 -0500
> 
>  On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:35:40AM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper
> wrote:
>  > 	The work-around is to start Linux X ports from an xterm
> command prompt,
>  > 	but this is ugly and sort of defeats the purpose of having
> X in the
>  > 	first place.  Bottom line, /compat/linux's X support needs
> to be
>  > 	updated!
>  
>  I have a pr in gnats that does this, but nobody has attempted to help
> 
>  me upgrade all 120 linux ports so it sits there and will continue 
>  until I can get some helpers.
>  
>  -- 
>  David W. Chapman Jr.
>  dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc.
>  dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer
> 

It would seem to be (rather naively, probably) that a great help in this
would be to have the X in /compat/linux track XFree86 in FreeBSD.  Of
course, this means keeping linux_base and linux_developer current enough
to do this, and I'm sure there are other issues . . .

jmc


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