On 1/11/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, I figured that was the motivation---but X.org and XFree86 are still > different projects with different code and all, so I was surprised that > the name starts in xf86- and the description says X.org... Wouldn't > xf86-something indicate a part of the XFree86 project?
I think it is important to note that these names were not invented by the Gentoo devs working the ebuilds....they are straight from the x.org project's distribution [1]. Also the x.org devs have not gone through and simply renamed everything that was xfree86 to xorg, as a simple browse through their CVS repository shows. Maybe they will at some point.... As I understand it, the Gentoo devs are trying to stick as close as possible to the x.org naming conventions. -Richard [1] http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#head-d88d5d60fa745d610670b0b415649dd52807e4e6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
