Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:25:24 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net> Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.1 Message-ID: <200502262225.24444.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> References: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:36, Godwin Stewart wrote: > ISTR not that long ago - when ports were updated from 6.7.0 - people were > reporting random freezes and crashes with the new version of Xorg. This > seems to have died down now so I might consider the update, which might not > be a bad idea given how many other ports are dependent on 6.8.1 and try to > update half the system... You don't need to update a port just because it depends on Xorg. The X API is quite stable so you can update just Xorg without expecting any problems. (I did XFree86 -> Xorg with zero problems for example) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCIGOs5ZPcIHs/zowRAlYaAJ9zIsFEKiOkuWSMTAxdYu+GXTq9AQCeJP0x u9keqMjQl4c7pK/2lK5/XNY= =nbbO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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