USE_X_PREFIX

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Apr 16 17:38:39 PDT 2004


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:35:12PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > To be correct it should probably be
> > 
> > PREFIX?=        ${X11BASE}      # This port itself does not require Xlib
> > .if ${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
> > MTREE_FILE=     /etc/mtree/BSD.x11.dist
> > .else
> > MTREE_FILE=     /etc/mtree/BSD.x11-4.dist
> > .endif
> 
> With a new release of XFree86 on the way, as well as the new refactored
> codebase from freedesktop.org, does it still make sense to try to support
> this older version?  Is the only advantage that some older video cards
> are not supported in the later versions?

Some people still use it for that reason, so I don't think we should
actively break support when it doesn't cost much.

Kris
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