Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 19:58:26 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should 9.3 carry a warning about NEW_XORG Message-ID: <20140707095825.GB1074@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomJByjDRrua2r6qevJ%2B_M8R5joHZ5gUP=OYh1KszZt6wQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <53B69B88.4060803@gmail.com> <E1X32XF-000PnU-QG@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <CAPyFy2BhARs%2BwxhOuP-09tcPgzerU00_ARy=o4OyKec9azTOkQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140705103235.GB7680@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> <CAJ-VmomJByjDRrua2r6qevJ%2B_M8R5joHZ5gUP=OYh1KszZt6wQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 05 Jul 2014, 11:46 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > The TL;DR reason for going up to building with new-xorg is because > without it, an increasing number of X related ports plainly won't > build anymore. They assume the newer X and DRI libraries. Thank you for this explanation: it helps. > So the choice is (a) new_xorg and pain, (b) no new_xorg and a lot of X > packages not getting upgraded any further, (c) more work on the ports > maintainers to try and figure out ways to work around an increasingly > impossible situation. There's also (d) - don't bother with 9.3. and (e) add WITHOUT_NEW_XORG to make.conf and upgrade to 9.3; understanding that this really is the end of the road for X on older hardware. 9.2 is EOL in a couple of months, so upgrading to 9.3 without breaking X makes sense to me. > The X ports team has a fast moving target to keep track of and we're > still not anywhere near the bleeding edge of Linux graphics rendering > support and all the graphics stuff that moves with it. As much as I > hate to see lots of churn, it's a losing battle. Again, thanks for explaining the X-related development/upgrade dilemma. The reason for my OP was that bad things happened, unexpectedly, with NO warning or explanation. --=20 John Marshall --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlO6b0EACgkQw/tAaKKahKIX3QCghPAgvjHe7f1JGytBR8csFVsp xjcAoMeWmnNxmf41jxrztlXOeR0gSG+z =iXWy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0--
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