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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:37:07 +1000
From:      Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed
Message-ID:  <200506260837.08911.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEENFFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEENFFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 7:45 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> But the plain fact of the matter is that the Open Source community
> isn't going to tolerate what xfree86 tried doing, and the users of
> open source, which is you and I, are not served by splitting development
> between 2 forks of X Windows.  The amount of new video hardware that is
> coming out and needs drivers is increasing, drivers are getting more and
> more complex to write, and manufacturers are just as bad as they always
> have been about assisting in video driver development.  The sooner that
> xfree86 goes away and dies the better for the community in the long
> run.

I dont want to get in the middle of a pissing contest yous seem to have going 
as to who is right or wrong or which X should be kept. The fact is i simply 
wished to know why the pkg was failing and how to correct it, nothing more 
nothing less.

-- 
Yours Sincerely
Shinjii
http://www.shinji.nq.nu



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