Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:43:26 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans Message-ID: <20070502194326.GA42980@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu>
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--yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >Hi all, > > > >After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we > >are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a > >huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully. >=20 > I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems. >=20 > First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long. X7.2 has so many dependencies,= =20 > that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure. My=20 > guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking= =20 > out all the dependencies before it even starts. To some extent this is true. It's not something we can fix now though. > Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had=20 > created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem=20 > completely, I don't think this is user friendly. I think I ran into this once a while back, I don't know what is the correct solution. Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGOOndWry0BWjoQKURAmmZAJ4z/QRa/Blluz8Ej7gdIZjUTDPjPwCfaHDo SpSWbNnxuuqfsjBfcKZfX10= =mRlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--
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