On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Chuck Robey <chu...@telenix.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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). > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmkue0ACgkQz62J6PPcoOkgOQCfS+bPR3zcTvckuTtY0fxMBMTT > OwsAnjVrFGOLjWhJjDbror4xgzHqjmrV > =nFWV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
