Re: Native X.Org: testers wanted

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:51:28 +0300
Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Forgive me if this not appropriate offer, but should NetBSD include
> all of "meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps" packages as part of NetBSD's
> native Xorg?
> 
> 
> For an end user below ones (and dependent ones) are required -at 
> least!... I'm personally using modular Xorg and has instaled
> following packages from pkgrsc:
> 
> 
> 1- modular-xorg-server
> 2- xinit
> 3- xf86-input-keyboard
> 4- xf86-input-mouse
> 5- xf86-video-vesa + xf86-video-nv
> 6- font-cursor-misc
> 7- font-misc-misc
> 8- dejavu-ttf (an optional true type font)*
> 
> 
> According to these, only above packages and 
> "meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers" seems to be required for native one
> too.
> 
It depends on how you define "should".  The current xfree86 has most of
-apps; deleting it would be a step backwards in functionality.  Since
the list includes very basic things like xterm, xdm, and twm (the
default window manager), I'd say that some of it is absolutely
essential for most systems.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb