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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