Xorg from Base or pkgsrc - recommendations?

[Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost>]

Dear NetBSD-users,

for many years, X11/Xorg provided the basis for graphical user 
interfaces on Unix-like systems; so on NetBSD. It was therefore always a 
relief for me to be able to install it ready for use as part of the base 
system.

In the meantime there is also X11/Xorg in pkgsrc and I wonder what 
reasons - in particular on the amd64 platform - speak for one or the 
other approach. I ask especially because I recently had some problems 
with both approaches.

The pkgsrc version led to segmentation faults on my Thinkpad X220 with 
Intel graphics, while the version from NetBSD worked without any problems.

On the other hand, the xentools411 from the pkgsrc could not be built 
with the version from NetBSD due to an unfulfilled dependency on Mesa, 
while with Xorg from pkgsrc there was no problem.

I don't want to see this as a rating - I didn't put a lot of energy into 
analyzing these problems and I think they can be solved or at least 
worked around. Nevertheless, I would be interested to know which route 
is the recommended one at the moment or where it is worth putting more 
energy into it.

Kind regards
Matthias