On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we > >are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a > >huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully. > > I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems. > > First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long. X7.2 has so many dependencies, > that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure. My > guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking > out all the dependencies before it even starts.
To some extent this is true. It's not something we can fix now though. > Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had > created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem > completely, I don't think this is user friendly. I think I ran into this once a while back, I don't know what is the correct solution. Kris
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