,--- You/vehemens (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:36:04 -0800) ----* | On Sunday 01 February 2009 11:22:52 am Alex Goncharov wrote: | > | > Any data points to support the last statement? | | How about the last two xorg updates. Gnome has similar problems.
Last two -- when (or what numbers)? | > | You wouldn't be able to keep other updates unless you manully patched the | > | tree, but you would be able to use the system until it's fixed. | > | > What the ETA for the new X fix? | | Not a clue. | > | > You may assume that X is going to be fixed -- but what if not, in, say | > | > a year? | > | | > | Your kidding me right?? | > | > No. You *know* that it is going to be fixed in a year? If yes, | > what's the source of your knowledge? What resources are going to be | > dedicated to work on my three problems? | | Not a clue. So why do you ask me if I am kidding you? | > | > | Well, it depends on which ports you are updating. | > | > | > | > All. | > | | > | Your saying that you build every port including the language options and | > | never had a problem in the last 18 months until the xorg update ?!?!? | > | > Yes, I am saying exactly this. I happen not to run Gnome or KDE. | > | > | > | If you only run X, then I would expect your statement to be correct. | > | > | > | > Not sure what you mean here: nobody "runs only X". It's impossible. | > | | > | To be precise, it's the xorg port. So yes it's possible. | > | > Hm, let's see: | > | > ---------------------------------------- | > Information for xorg-server-1.5.3_2,1: | > | > Depends on: ([ I exclude the "X things" ]): | > Dependency: expat-2.0.1 | > Dependency: openssl-0.9.8j | > Dependency: pciids-20081012 | > Dependency: e2fsprogs-libuuid-1.41.3_1 | > Dependency: python25-2.5.2_3 | > Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1 | > Dependency: libpthread-stubs-0.1 | > Dependency: libiconv-1.11_1 | > Dependency: gettext-0.17_1 | > ---------------------------------------- | > | > Plenty of non-xorg things are needed for xorg, right? | > | > And if I build from the sources, I also need gmake, bison, autoconf | > etc. | | Your kidding me again right?? Cute. Thanks for your contribution and have a good day now. -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
