Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:55:17 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT and XFree86 4.0.2 problem Message-ID: <20010201115517.V479@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20010201104723.F923@FreeBSD.org>; from ade@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:47:23AM -0600 References: <20010123101200.B542@naver.co.id> <20010131115547.C2268@webcom.it> <200101311336.f0VDaTk81098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it> <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net> <20010201104723.F923@FreeBSD.org>
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--7Rldj+JZnTQmDdGi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:47:23AM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > In fact, that's what X-aware ports do on bento anyway, so if you're > installing packages, there may very will be "interesting" > inconsistencies. *sigh* > I've said it before, and I'll say it again.. x11/XFree86-4 is an > anchronism that needs to die, or at least turn into a metaport. > It's also not prefix-safe, seeing as how it dumps a load of > stuff into /etc/X11 (my / partition is read-only, with symlinks > for a few things that really do need to be read/write). I agree. > Failing that, and given that various mailing lists are full of > people having major problems with XFree86 4.0.2, the whole damn > thing should be backed out to 4.0.1 (which worked), repo-copy > over to x11/XFree86-4-devel (or something) with 4.0.2, and then > those that want to sit down and nail the problems can do so, > without affecting the majority of end-users that probably could > care less about 4.0.1 vs 4.0.2 -- they just want an X that *works*. Well, what about other interests? I need X4.0.2 myself because 4.0.1 and earlier don't have support for my video card (not very good anyway). I'd say people should stick to 3.x if they want an X that works. 4.x people can submit bugs to XFree86 and patches to jmz. --=20 wca --7Rldj+JZnTQmDdGi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6eZT0F47idPgWcsURAsPHAJ9vhpUxgbe/GJd/DP2UQKurhRABGACeO+mh /KUDw8ojpfpxG6t9WMyR9Go= =G5ZZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7Rldj+JZnTQmDdGi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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