On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> > > Also, FreeBSD is working hard at using freedesktop.org xlibs to provide
> > > most of their X Libraries.
> >
> > Why?
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=28820+0+archive/2003/freebsd-ports/20031116.freebsd-ports
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=138926+0+archive/2003/freebsd-ports/20031116.freebsd-ports
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2003-November/000008.html
> (This explains most.)

...becase Keith Packard forked freedesktop.org after he was kicked out
of XFree86? That explains nothing -- not why he has kicked out, or why
we should care.

> http://news.gw.com/freebsd.x11/18

...because NetBSD is embracing freedesktop.org's fork? This rather
begs the question, doesn't it?

> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/xlibs-pre/xlibs-status.txt

This is just a list of files. What does that have to do with the
question I asked, which is why NetBSD pkgsrc should embrace Keith
Packard's (incomplete) fork of XFree86 in favor of XFree86? Before you
send us hurtling down this course, I think you owe us some explanation
of what this is all about, and who the players are.

Frederick