Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:11:00 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What can I do? Message-ID: <200703281611.01544.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <861wj9sjz6.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <46022E59.7030407@jabbe.de> <46026D62.4010009@FreeBSD.org> <861wj9sjz6.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Wednesday 28 of March 2007, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > It's working for you without major breakage only because you're using > > 500 ports out of 16000+ (like I do, like almost everybody does). Still > > some ports are breaking with the new xorg, or because of the prefix > > merge. We're working on those ports. Have a look at [1] or [2] to get > > regular updates on xorg work. > > [...] > > As you can see on [3], we're still committing fixes. We usually fix > > those ports by ourselves (miwi, lesi and myself) but occasionally > > forward them to maintainers when we can't figure out what's wrong or > > when it requires non-trivial fix. When we fixed all ports broken in a > > single experimental pointyhat build, a new one is scheduled and then we > > get new errorlogs, ... > > I suspect you're way past the point where new issues show up faster > than you can fix them. The only way out of this tar pit is to merge > everything into the ports tree so other port maintainers have a real > incentive to help you out. Not quite just yet. We should at least fix trivial failures (mostly plist=20 fixes) that would otherwise keep things like qt and gtk from building. But= =20 yes, once we're at the stage that some (mostly leaf) ports fail because of= =20 library differences and such then yes, we should go and merge the thing=20 (possibly with short freeze and definitely with large headsups). I don't=20 think it will take much longer until we get there. Dejan
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