Whither X?

Curtis Villamizar curtis at occnc.com
Tue Jun 23 05:10:20 UTC 2009


In message <24153871.post at talk.nabble.com>
William Cheswick writes:
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>  
> Robert,
>  
> I salute you in your lonely attempts to keep up with the bloat from Xorg.
> Your efforts deserve more support than that: FreeBSD is too important.
>  
> Alas, I fear that these problems are threatening the choice to use FreeBSD
> as an OS for clients.  I am spending more and more time dealing with the
> kinds of problems others have listed here.  Unfortunately, there really are
> no good alternatives: Linux has bloat of its own, and isn't quite Unix,
> Apple is a possibility, at least with enough support.
>  
> Bill Cheswick


It might help to have CVS tags in the ports collection such as the
base OS RELENG tags, at least in the x11-* ports.  Either that or use
the cvsup date= feature and fetch x11 ports that way.

Curtis


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