dependency fixing for xorg stuff
Franz Klammer
klammer at webonaut.com
Mon Jul 5 01:06:12 PDT 2004
Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:20:16 -0700, Eric Anholt <eta at lclark.edu> wrote:
>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/xorg-conv-1.diff
>
>
> You can remove the fluxbox-devel and fluxbox in this diff. The
> fluxbox-devel is no longer depend on XFree86-client. As for fluxbox
> will be remove too when maintainer approves or fluxbox-devel merges
> into fluxbox when 1.0 is released.
>
> A question, how would you like me to deal with the libXrender? The
> x11/gcursor, my port, will need the libXrender if xorg is installed. It
> doesn't need this if XFree86-lib is installed. If you already have this
> plan, then nevermind and I will wait.
>
libXrender will be installed with xorg-libraries but not xrender.pc
there is already a (unverified) patch at X.org's bugzilla which seems to work.
you can take a look at it here:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=478
franz.
> Thanks for your works!
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> The link above is a patch to fix up dependencies and make xorg the
>> default X for FreeBSD 5.2 and up. It'll fix, XFree86-3 as well,
>> mostly. Personally, I think we should remove XFree86 3.3.6 from the
>> tree because it's a waste of everyone's time. People would be better
>> supported by current XFree86 or Xorg. (The one exception being very old
>> cards that never got updated drivers because basically nobody has them,
>> which will likely perform about as well and have only feature tradeoffs
>> when using the vesa driver instead)
>>
>> It needs more review, then I'll forward to portmgr.
>
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