x11 status

[matt donovan]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:

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> I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on FreeBSD.or
> really,
> at all.  It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers have been removed from
> ports.
>  I was looking on the www.Xfree86.org website, and from what I see, it
> apparently still is generating releases.  Also, I downloaded the latest cvs
> image from Xfree86, and it built FAR easier that xorg, far faster, far
> simpler
> to configure ... but when I look into FreeBSD-ports, the few ports which
> still
> have the Xfree86 name, they're really cheating (talking about the drivers),
> they
> seem to be really xorg drivers, just haven't had their names fixed.  No
> servers
> for Xfree86 exist in ports anymore, even though it seems trivial to build.
>
> Why is that?  Is XFree86 not getting any fixes?  It seems that their
> version
> 4.8.0 is recent, so I'm confused.  I just wanted to know if it's missing
> from
> ports for some reason, or only because someone wanted it removed?  It
> couldn't
> be because of a massive prejudice for configure-based ports, is it? (I hope
> not).
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It's due to the fact that not a lot of programs will compile with xfree86.
Xorg is the de-facto standard now for graphic server. Pretty much All
programs that require a gui at least the ones that depend on X libs use Xorg
libs.