cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts/bitstream-vera Makefile

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:24:04PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Eric Anholt pí?e v st 16. 02. 2005 v 08:18 -0800:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:18 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:02:10PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > > Joe Marcus Clarke p??e v st 16. 02. 2005 v 05:11 +0000:
> > > > > marcus      2005-02-16 05:11:47 UTC
> > > > > 
> > > > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > > > > 
> > > > >   Modified files:
> > > > >     x11-fonts/bitstream-vera Makefile 
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Use the correct plist.
> > > > 
> > > > You think people still run XFree 3.x ?
> > > 
> > > They might, actually.  XFree 3.x is still probably useful for people with
> > > old hardware/specific cards.
> > 
> > People with cards sufficiently old to not be supported by current
> > X.Org/XFree86 would probably be better off with the vesa driver and
> > shadowfb instead.
> > 
> > In fact, I don't know what cards are supported natively by 3.3.6 and not
> > X.Org.  The failure of the transition to XFree86 4.0 was largely due to
> > the nonexistent-to-poor s3virge support, if I remember right, and that
> > was fixed at least a year ago.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, XFree 3.x ports are already removed, right?

No, they are not.

> 
> Is it a time to sweep code supporting 3.x out from the ports tree?

No, not until all the old devices that 3.x supports are also supported
by XFree86-4/X.org, or the very existence of XFree86 3.x in the ports
tree starts to cause some real problems.
So far neither of these are true.

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