Unhappy Xorg upgrade

[Alex Goncharov]

,--- You/vehemens (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:36:04 -0800) ----*
| On Sunday 01 February 2009 11:22:52 am Alex Goncharov wrote:
| >
| > Any data points to support the last statement?
| 
| How about the last two xorg updates.  Gnome has similar problems.

Last two -- when (or what numbers)?
 
| > | You wouldn't be able to keep other updates unless you manully patched the
| > | tree, but you would be able to use the system until it's fixed.
| >
| > What the ETA for the new X fix?
| 
| Not a clue.

| > | > You may assume that X is going to be fixed -- but what if not, in, say
| > | > a year?
| > |
| > | Your kidding me right??
| >
| > No.  You *know* that it is going to be fixed in a year?  If yes,
| > what's the source of your knowledge?  What resources are going to be
| > dedicated to work on my three problems?
| 
| Not a clue.

So why do you ask me if I am kidding you?

| > | > | Well, it depends on which ports you are updating.
| > | >
| > | > All.
| > |
| > | Your saying that you build every port including the language options and
| > | never had a problem in the last 18 months until the xorg update ?!?!?
| >
| > Yes, I am saying exactly this. I happen not to run Gnome or KDE.
| >
| > | > | If you only run X, then I would expect your statement to be correct.
| > | >
| > | > Not sure what you mean here: nobody "runs only X". It's impossible.
| > |
| > | To be precise, it's the xorg port.  So yes it's possible.
| >
| > Hm, let's see:
| >
| > ----------------------------------------
| > Information for xorg-server-1.5.3_2,1:
| >
| > Depends on: ([ I exclude the "X things" ]):
| > Dependency: expat-2.0.1
| > Dependency: openssl-0.9.8j
| > Dependency: pciids-20081012
| > Dependency: e2fsprogs-libuuid-1.41.3_1
| > Dependency: python25-2.5.2_3
| > Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1
| > Dependency: libpthread-stubs-0.1
| > Dependency: libiconv-1.11_1
| > Dependency: gettext-0.17_1
| > ----------------------------------------
| >
| > Plenty of non-xorg things are needed for xorg, right?
| >
| > And if I build from the sources, I also need gmake, bison, autoconf
| > etc.
| 
| Your kidding me again right??

Cute. Thanks for your contribution and have a good day now.

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov at comcast.net --