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Subject: Re: [CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing!
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Martin Wilke wrote:
> With the new mesa 8.0 release, accelerated support for a number of
> older graphic cards was dropped. At the moment we are not sure how to
> deal with that.We are thinking of just replacing mesa 7.11 with 8.0 or
> making a new flag like WITH_MESA= 7.11.2 / 8.0 in combination with
> WITH_NEW_XORG, and let the mesa 7.6.1 set as default together with the
> old xorg version. Obviosly the latter option make the already complex
> situation more complex. The problem is, users, especially  the new ones
> can easily get confused with it. Another issue is, the packages.We
> can't deliver a package set with the new Xorg releases.

Will it be possible to provide, say pkgng repo with packages compiled
with new xorg and new mesa? That would simplify testing (and using) by a
very large factor. We'd just change PACKAGESITE and run pkg upgrade.