Re: xorg removal

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jun 27, 2008, at 21:58, raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2008 23:43:17 Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I finally got around to remove the xorg subdirectory from the xsrc  
> > tree.
> > I did not CVS delete it, I actually removed it so that it does not  
> > take
> > up useless space and waste time in checkouts. You should delete it  
> > manually
> > too. We had decided to remove this a long time ago because this  
> > version
> > is stale, it never worked, and nobody is maintaining it. The recent
> > security advisories is the reason I did this now rather than later.
> >
> > christos
>
> So does this mean NetBSD is not switching to Xorg?

No, we've had xorg in pkgsrc for quite some time.

> Isn't Xorg supposed to be way better and far ahead of XFree86?

On mainstream hardware - yes. But at least our xfree86 supports a few  
things xorg doesn't. Of course all this isn't too hard to port but  
Someone(tm) has to do it and I for instance don't have anywhere near  
as much time for hacking as I used to.

have fun
Michael

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