From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 1 2: 9:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB99237B503; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 02:09:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5B4118FC; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 05:09:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 05:09:02 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Andrea Campi Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and XFree86 4.0.2 problem Message-ID: <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20010123101200.B542@naver.co.id> <20010131115547.C2268@webcom.it> <200101311336.f0VDaTk81098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TdMwOTenGjBWB1uY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it>; from andrea@webcom.it on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:25:42PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --TdMwOTenGjBWB1uY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:25:42PM +0100, Andrea Campi wrote: > Seriously, this is my main workstation at the office, and I need > to get real work done. That's my number one priority. Once I am > back at that point, with my /usr/X11R6 backed up, I can > probably try. Uh, nothing prevents you from installing XFree86 4.0.1 - you can just download the sources and make World yourself.. it's not like you really need ports for this. > But this is not the point, in my opinion. The point is, > X is something we must be able to rely on. It should never > be broken, as it takes hours to fix it. If it breaks, it > should be fixed ASAP. If we are not able to guarantee this, This is a complaint that should be sent to the X people, not FreeBSD. > If you are going to be maintainer of this code, may I > suggest that you find a group of volunteers that together > have 99% of the hardware (it's not hard), and let them > test new revisions before upgrading? That would be a very > professional way to deal with this. See above - nothing keeps you from installing X from sources. It's not worth the effort to create another X port for people who have hardware that doesn't work in the newest X. --=20 wca --TdMwOTenGjBWB1uY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6eTW+F47idPgWcsURAqjMAJ9fQRiMB2ejdP33GgEDKoLVHo+T6wCbB/y6 0bM6GkQB3KLBaduHHATrWR8= =ADeX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TdMwOTenGjBWB1uY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message