Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

Warren shinjii at virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com
Sat Jun 25 22:39:37 GMT 2005


On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 7:45 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> But the plain fact of the matter is that the Open Source community
> isn't going to tolerate what xfree86 tried doing, and the users of
> open source, which is you and I, are not served by splitting development
> between 2 forks of X Windows.  The amount of new video hardware that is
> coming out and needs drivers is increasing, drivers are getting more and
> more complex to write, and manufacturers are just as bad as they always
> have been about assisting in video driver development.  The sooner that
> xfree86 goes away and dies the better for the community in the long
> run.

I dont want to get in the middle of a pissing contest yous seem to have going 
as to who is right or wrong or which X should be kept. The fact is i simply 
wished to know why the pkg was failing and how to correct it, nothing more 
nothing less.

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Yours Sincerely
Shinjii
http://www.shinji.nq.nu


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