Re: switching remaining platforms to modular X by default

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 01:23:00PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 01:09:22PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > > Switching NetBSD 5.0* to modular X11 seems to be a no-brainer.
> > > But stopping to support native X11 at all is somewhat different.
> > > 
> > > Please remember that there are platforms where only native X11 provides
> > > a working X11 server.
> > 
> > I still think that NetBSD should provide X servers. But that's an
> > orthogonal problem to the question if we use the X libraries that are
> > installed in /usr/X11R7 when building packages.
> 
> Not really. Shipping a lot of libraries and programs with NetBSD that
> never get used would IMHO be silly.

Yes, it's a waste. We probably should remove the non-server parts of
xsrc.

I don't see what your proposal is though how to go forward.
 Thomas