Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:35 -0200 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/137373: x11/libX11: make dependance on x11/libxcb Message-ID: <e71790db0911171222s36b7e414gc0d1e9b0bd2cff64@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1258477653.2303.48.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <200911170210.nAH2A3B2089193@freefall.freebsd.org> <1258477653.2303.48.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 02:10 +0000, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> The following reply was made to PR ports/137373; it has been noted by GN= ATS. >> >> From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> >> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org >> Cc: >> Subject: Re: ports/137373: x11/libX11: make dependance on x11/libxcb >> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:07:47 -0200 >> >> =A0This PR has been collecting dust for three moths. Is there any chance >> =A0that the proposed patch gets committed? > > There is a pretty fair risk of breaking several other ports with this. > Other ports that also expect xcb to be present would need to be modified > to either have xcb disabled or fail if libX11 does not have the needed > functionality. That's exactly why I made it optional, default on, keeping the default beha= vior. --=20 My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.
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