Subject: Re: FreeBSD impression & some suggestions about NetBSD (not troll)
To: Eye of the Beholder <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/27/2006 13:20:05
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:05:30PM +0300, Eye of the Beholder wrote:
> Also, i don't know why there is a native
> X while there is the pkgsrc one which works fine.

I can answer this one: because X.org does not have all NetBSD specific 
changes for non-i386 machines (yet), so "works fine" is only true for
a few archs.

And we need to be able to cross-compile X sets for other archs, or the
releng team would not be able to supply X binary sets for releases.

Martin