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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