Subject: Re: Xorg 6.9/7.0
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/01/2006 23:55:34
On 1/1/06, walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>
> > "modular" as in that every library or program that conforms X.Org
> > is now in its own distfile, all autoconf-ized (a la GNOME)...
>
> > I think we'll eventually have to switch...
>
> Can you explain what you mean by 'switch'?  From what, to what?

From the monolithic packages (XOrg 6.9) to the splitted and
autoconfed ones (XOrg 7.0).  I don't know for how long the former
will be supported, and the latter can bring us some benefits
(specially forgetting about imake).

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