Future of XFree86

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 25 19:48:07 UTC 2007


On 5/25/07, Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Today I started out to replace all the old 'USE_XLIB' macros in the KDE ports,
> the Qt ports and all the ports which are in Qt's and KDE's dependency path
> with dependencies on the individual Xorg ports, until it dawned on me that
> this would effectively desupport XFree86.

Can't there be a USE_GNOME-like variable named USE_XLIB
or USE_X or whatever, which you set to components you
need, which in turn can be provided with separate Xorg
7.2 ports or a monolithic XFree86 port?


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