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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:51:35 -0400
From:      Curtis Villamizar <curtis@occnc.com>
To:        William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Whither X? 
Message-ID:  <200906230451.n5N4pZRm058097@harbor.orleans.occnc.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:34:34 PDT." <24153871.post@talk.nabble.com> 

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In message <24153871.post@talk.nabble.com>
William Cheswick writes:
>  
>  
> Robert,
>  
> I salute you in your lonely attempts to keep up with the bloat from Xorg.
> Your efforts deserve more support than that: FreeBSD is too important.
>  
> Alas, I fear that these problems are threatening the choice to use FreeBSD
> as an OS for clients.  I am spending more and more time dealing with the
> kinds of problems others have listed here.  Unfortunately, there really are
> no good alternatives: Linux has bloat of its own, and isn't quite Unix,
> Apple is a possibility, at least with enough support.
>  
> Bill Cheswick


It might help to have CVS tags in the ports collection such as the
base OS RELENG tags, at least in the x11-* ports.  Either that or use
the cvsup date= feature and fetch x11 ports that way.

Curtis



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