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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/xpm/patches patch-aa
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * Ah, so I have to FTP dozens of megabytes of X to get xpm to install. 
 * Definitely superior.

You should read the commit logs before making changes like this.  I
recompile the entire ports tree every two weeks or so; don't assume
something as basic as this will stay broken for long.  You can drop me
a note first if you are not sure.

 * Tell me, does the patch _hurt_ on an XF86-3.3 system?  The lack of it 

Yes.

 * is *fatal* on anything earlier.  How about a constructive suggestion 
 * for telling the difference between the two?

I suggested you look at the commit logs.  If you did just that, you
would have noticed that what you added is exactly what I deleted in
the previous revision because it didn't work anymore.

 * This is particularly biting as xpm is not shipped as a package; your 
 * insistence makes it effectively impossible to retrofit xpm to anything 
 * other than a bleeding-edge -stable system.

It's not only xpm.  I fixed probably a dozen ports since XFree86-3.3
came out.  That is the official release now, and we follow it.  (It
has nothing to do with whether your -stable is bleeding edge.)

I don't mind you using a local patch (try "patch-zz", I have a bunch
of those at home) if you don't want to keep up with the latest XFree86
release.  But I strongly object you breaking our package builds.

Satoshi