At Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:33:27 -0700, jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John
Nemeth) wrote:
Subject: Re: Changing default X11_TYPE from native to modular for some
platforms (Was: What platforms work with X11_TYPE=native)
>
> I did say basic apps could be okay. But, there would be no hope
> of building something like KDE4 (or Gnome).
I did have Gnome built against XFree86 not so long ago, and it was
working too I think
I'd still like to know some more concrete reasons as to what exactly is
missing or conflicting.
As far as I know pkgsrc adds any potentially the missing stuff itself
anyway.
> } BTW, as far as I can tell NetBSD-5 is already using the newer Xorg code
> } as the "native" X11 on a few platforms, and if I'm not mistaken that is
> } what pkgsrc refers to as "modular", so at least for amd64, i386, macppc,
>
> "modular" refers to XOrg from pkgsrc. "native" refers to native
> regardless of what it is.
Hmmm... that's not a very useful set of terms as descriptive terms.
For that distinction they may as well be called "1" and "2", though
"modular" is the most wrong term there. "pkgsrc" (or maybe
"pkgsrc-x11") would be better. No wonder I've been confused.
After all, "native" _is_ (for these purposes) Modular Xorg in netbsd-5
and newer!
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