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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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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."
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