Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:27:08 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Subject: Re: X.org update broke emulators/wine with old version of X Message-ID: <20070520192708.GA42397@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705202051540.26010@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705201621180.26010@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20070520183403.GD41378@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705202051540.26010@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:43PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Florent Thoumie wrote: > >> Can someone more familiar with this lend a helping hand, please? I > >> assume we do want to support users still running older versions of X, > >> don't we? > > Not really. This is why XFree86-4 will go away in a few months. > > > > In that case, it's not about the version of X. The breakage is caused > > by the PREFIX merge. > > Given that we do not have an update solution which nicely works for > some non-trivial setups and situations I'm afraid this is going to > hurt us. Can you explain to which situations you refer? > I'll keep testing and reporting bugs and see where this is heading. > > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Per my email to ports the other week, XFree86-4 requires a maintainer > > interested in keeping support alive. In particular since we now have > > no supported build architectures that are using XFree86-4 by default, > > it will be (and has been) entirely untested with the post-X.org > > changes and will quickly rot. > > Please note that my report was for a system running X.org 6.9, not > XFree86. OK, well it's also true that X.org 6.9 is unsupported as of yesterday since it is no longer present in ports. Kris
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