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- From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:38:03 +0200
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:43:17AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
[...]
> While many people have xorg-modular working (including me ;)), we do need
> to
> make sure we have the X11-LIBS and X11-SERVER dependencies worked out so
> someone switching from xorg -> xorg-modular will not have any issues. We
> also
> need a metaspell that gives the equivalent functionality to xorg.
>
> I propose we do the following to clean up our X system:
> * Remove xfree86* (unmaintained by us for years)
Agreed, we simply don't have the resources to maintain two X11
implementation with completely different build systems.
> * Remove xdirectfb (unmaintained by anyone)
Agreed for the same reason.
> * Use xorg as the xorg-modular metaspell that depends on all required
> packages
> and has optional dependencies on all the drivers/fonts/etc.
> * File a bug for each xorg-modular spell missing descriptions
> * File a bug for each spell using X11-LIBS or X11-SERVER that does not also
> have the corresponding check_if_xorg_modular_{libs,server} check and
> dependencies
If we remove all monolithic X11 spells, the check_if_xorg... can all be
removed, since the only available xorg will be the modular one. That'll
make spells cleaner too.
--
Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg
, (continued)
- Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg, David Brown, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Eric Sandall, 04/19/2007
- Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
George Sherwood, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Matthew Clark, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 04/19/2007
- Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg, Matthew Clark, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 04/19/2007
- Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg, Eric Sandall, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 04/19/2007
- Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg, Arwed von Merkatz, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Matthew Clark, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Arwed von Merkatz, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Jeremy Blosser, 04/19/2007
- Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg, Arwed von Merkatz, 04/19/2007
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Re: [SM-Discuss] xorg,
Jeremy Blosser, 04/19/2007
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