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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:18:09 -0400
From:      Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dependency fixing for xorg stuff
Message-ID:  <20040708011809.GA1730@wombat.jungle>
In-Reply-To: <1088990415.987.9.camel@leguin>
References:  <1088990415.987.9.camel@leguin>

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* Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> [040704 21:21]:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/xorg-conv-1.diff
>=20
> 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)
>=20
> It needs more review, then I'll forward to portmgr.


Just for the record, I used this patch prior to installing GNOME 2 and
it picked up the correct dependancies.  It even noticed that I had
imake-4 and not imake-6 installed the next time I ran pkgdb -F.
Wonderful work.

--Mike

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