Q: state of the X (as related to fbsd).

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Monday 05 of July 2004 12:55, Klaus Robert Suetterlin wrote:
> Dear Dejan Lasjak,
>
> thanks for abusing this thread, to provide some in depth insight
> on the ports part of the story.  Please allow me to abuse this to
> jump at You with more questions.
>
> Do I understand You correctly that:
>
> 1) Soon (before end of July) ports will have a system that allows
> to use either X.org or XFree86, at users choice.
>
> 2) Soon (before end of July) dri will get updated in ports.
>
> 3) Soon (before end of July) Xfree86-4-clients gets a patch that
> repairs xdm under FreeBSD-4.10.
>
> 4) Soon (see above) XFree86 will get upgraded to 4.4(.0).
>
> 5) There is no need for helping hands, as the most competent persons
> are already working their ass off to get everything done right (tm).
>
> Regards, Robert S.

The users choice between XFree86 and X.Org will be possible with the patch 
Eric Anholt posted in thread "dependency fixing for xorg stuff".
The patch for xdm should be there when XFree86 ports are upgraded to 4.4.
As for when will this happen, I would really rather not try to guess.
And I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that there's always need for helping 
hands :)
Although these answers are probably not entirely what you were hoping for, 
it's more or less all I can sayright now. Perhaps someone else can correct me 
and/or add something to this.


Dejan