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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