From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 17:41:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10F41065677 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hanche+bounces@math.ntnu.no) Received: from abel.math.ntnu.no (abel.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 303C38FC0A for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hanche+bounces@math.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 16857 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2009 17:14:21 -0000 Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.102) by abel.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 4 Feb 2009 17:14:21 -0000 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:14:20 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20090204.181420.172787686.hanche@math.ntnu.no> To: linimon@lonesome.com From: Harald Hanche-Olsen In-Reply-To: <20090204161108.GA7474@soaustin.net> References: <200902041530.n14FU3QL074698@freefall.freebsd.org> <20090204161108.GA7474@soaustin.net> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1.53 on Emacs 23.0.60 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/131124: x11/xorg - New xorg 7.4 hangs until mouse is moved when AllowEmptyInput turned off X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:41:04 -0000 + linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon): > Unfortunately the contents of the Severity and Priority fields in > the PR database have suffered from "grade inflation" and as such > have lost their meaning long ago. > > Leaving them in the database is, at this point, just a bug. Ah. Thanks for letting me know. > In any case, with FreeBSD ports being all volunteer-driven, there's > really no requirements that we can put on the volunteers to > prioritize one PR over another. It really depends on how motivated > they are as to how they allocate their time. I have used free software long enough to understand this well. Still, if nobody speaks up, said volunteers may be left with a false impression that the problems are minor and don't need urgent fixing. So I like to whine just a little once in a while, but I'll keep it to a minimum. Now I have a plan to work around this on my own system. How does this sound? I don't want to downgrade all my ports to before this happened. So I think I would create an alternative ports tree, cvsup'd from a suitable date, and build just the X server and its required ports in that tree, maybe even install them in an alternate location (i.e., not in /usr/local). Since the server is run from just one place, this should be a minor adminstrative burden. I only need to set a small handful of environment variables to make this happen, right? - Harald