ports/131124: x11/xorg - New xorg 7.4 hangs until mouse is moved when AllowEmptyInput turned off

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon):

> Unfortunately the contents of the Severity and Priority fields in
> the PR database have suffered from "grade inflation" and as such
> have lost their meaning long ago.
> 
> Leaving them in the database is, at this point, just a bug.

Ah. Thanks for letting me know.

> In any case, with FreeBSD ports being all volunteer-driven, there's
> really no requirements that we can put on the volunteers to
> prioritize one PR over another.  It really depends on how motivated
> they are as to how they allocate their time.

I have used free software long enough to understand this well.  Still,
if nobody speaks up, said volunteers may be left with a false
impression that the problems are minor and don't need urgent fixing.
So I like to whine just a little once in a while, but I'll keep it to
a minimum.

Now I have a plan to work around this on my own system. How does this
sound? I don't want to downgrade all my ports to before this
happened. So I think I would create an alternative ports tree, cvsup'd
from a suitable date, and build just the X server and its required
ports in that tree, maybe even install them in an alternate location
(i.e., not in /usr/local). Since the server is run from just one
place, this should be a minor adminstrative burden. I only need to set
a small handful of environment variables to make this happen, right?

- Harald