Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:03:33 -0400 From: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, flz@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports? Message-ID: <28283d910903311903q76d4a6fdjda6daa35313c5047@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090331222207.GB7661@lonesome.com> References: <49D24F4A.3060900@telenix.org> <20090331222207.GB7661@lonesome.com>
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I need to understand why all support for XFree86 has been removed from > > our ports. > > Because no one volunteered to do the work to support it. > > At any given time there are at least a couple of dozen X11-related PRs > outstanding, and more questions posted to various mailing lists. A lot > of them are of the form "I can't get X version foo to work with my XYZ > card." Without anyone willing to work on such things, there was no > reason to keep doing the extra work to support the parallel set of > infrastructure. (Removing the code to be able to pick one or the other > greatly simplified bsd.*.mk, for instance.) > > It's simply a question of how many hours of work people want to put in, > much like any other FreeBSD ports. > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Also many programs compile only with Xorg now. Well without patches of course. The small programs anyways. also Xfree86 does not have regular updates either from what I can see December 28, 2008 is their last one. Xorg gets updated roughly every month since they became modular. but yes the main reason is no one to maintain it.
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