Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:06:49 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support Message-ID: <20010627120649.M30605@johncoop> In-Reply-To: <200106271850.f5RIo3u56234@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:50:03 -0700 References: <200106271850.f5RIo3u56234@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 2001.06.27 11:50 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/28458; it has been noted by > GNATS. > > From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> > To: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with > Linux X support > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:42:16 -0500 > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:35:40AM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper > wrote: > > The work-around is to start Linux X ports from an xterm > command prompt, > > but this is ugly and sort of defeats the purpose of having > X in the > > first place. Bottom line, /compat/linux's X support needs > to be > > updated! > > I have a pr in gnats that does this, but nobody has attempted to help > > me upgrade all 120 linux ports so it sits there and will continue > until I can get some helpers. > > -- > David W. Chapman Jr. > dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. > dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer > It would seem to be (rather naively, probably) that a great help in this would be to have the X in /compat/linux track XFree86 in FreeBSD. Of course, this means keeping linux_base and linux_developer current enough to do this, and I'm sure there are other issues . . . jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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