From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 11:57:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664D016A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:57:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BBA43D41 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:57:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1QBtkY3012782; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:25:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:25:24 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1419707.rRG7GY81JS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502262225.24444.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Godwin Stewart Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:57:12 -0000 --nextPart1419707.rRG7GY81JS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 n= ot > 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=20 quite stable so you can update just Xorg without expecting any problems. (I= =20 did XFree86 -> Xorg with zero problems for example) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1419707.rRG7GY81JS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCIGOs5ZPcIHs/zowRAlYaAJ9zIsFEKiOkuWSMTAxdYu+GXTq9AQCeJP0x u9keqMjQl4c7pK/2lK5/XNY= =nbbO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1419707.rRG7GY81JS--