HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at math.missouri.edu
Wed May 2 20:02:01 UTC 2007



On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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.

I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems.

First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long.  X7.2 has so many dependencies, 
that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure.  My 
guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking 
out all the dependencies before it even starts.

Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had 
created a .Xauthority file.  While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem 
completely, I don't think this is user friendly.

But I might be a little out of sate, and all this has since been fixed.

Stephen



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