Re: Advice sought: which X11 for NetBSD 5.* (going forward) ??

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:44:35PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Long ago, I (and I suspect most other non-masochists) dumped the
> native X11 on NetBSD 4 based systems in favour of the much more
> modern pkgsrc modular Xorg system.
> 
> But, on NetBSD 5, I have continued using native X11 (Xorg based I
> believe) rather than the pkgsrc version.

I use native one. But it's not an informed choice. I just went by "native
might be better tuned for NetBSD simply because it exists" hunch.

A basic question: Why does such choice exist in NetBSD? What is the trade
off for the users in choosing one over the other?

Mayuresh.