Subject: Re: xfree86 in pkgsrc? (Was: Re: UUCP removal from OpenBSD)\
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jarom=EDr_Dolecek?= <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/06/2001 08:39:09
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0200, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:

 > The idea is to have the majority of our changes fed back to XFree86
 > tree, so that number of differences would be kept minimal as time passes.
 > Having it in pkgsrc would make it very clean which changes are 'ours'
 > and thus need to be fed back.

xsrc is the kind of "necessary subsystem" that is appropriate to
maintain in our own CVS repository.  End of story.  There will
probably ALWAYS be patches that the XFree86 people won't take
back, and there will ALWAYS be patches that take a while to get
fed back for various reasons.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>