Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:06:04 +0200 From: Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency fixing for xorg stuff Message-ID: <40E90BEC.6060502@webonaut.com> In-Reply-To: <opsam78o1m9aq2h7@mezz> References: <1088990415.987.9.camel@leguin> <opsam78o1m9aq2h7@mezz>
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Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:20:16 -0700, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/xorg-conv-1.diff > > > You can remove the fluxbox-devel and fluxbox in this diff. The > fluxbox-devel is no longer depend on XFree86-client. As for fluxbox > will be remove too when maintainer approves or fluxbox-devel merges > into fluxbox when 1.0 is released. > > A question, how would you like me to deal with the libXrender? The > x11/gcursor, my port, will need the libXrender if xorg is installed. It > doesn't need this if XFree86-lib is installed. If you already have this > plan, then nevermind and I will wait. > libXrender will be installed with xorg-libraries but not xrender.pc there is already a (unverified) patch at X.org's bugzilla which seems to work. you can take a look at it here: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=478 franz. > Thanks for your works! > > Cheers, > Mezz > >> The link above is a patch to fix up dependencies and make xorg the >> default X for FreeBSD 5.2 and up. It'll fix, XFree86-3 as well, >> mostly. Personally, I think we should remove XFree86 3.3.6 from the >> tree because it's a waste of everyone's time. People would be better >> supported by current XFree86 or Xorg. (The one exception being very old >> cards that never got updated drivers because basically nobody has them, >> which will likely perform about as well and have only feature tradeoffs >> when using the vesa driver instead) >> >> It needs more review, then I'll forward to portmgr. >
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