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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 20:43:43 2007-04-19 George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I propose we do the following to clean up our X system:
> > * Remove xfree86* (unmaintained by us for years)
> 
> I disagree with this.  I updated xfree86 in November and run it on one
> machine.  I don't see why would would remove it.
> 

here's one reason more and more applications depend on modular specific
things. xf86 doesn't have anfthing that the latest xorg has i.e. exa they
are still using xaa last I've heard

Also as said in some other post it's a completly different build system and
on disk system it becomes a PITA to support with drivers and stuff.

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