Re: Changing default X11_TYPE from native to modular for some platforms (Was: What platforms work with X11_TYPE=native)

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 19 September 2011 12:14, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:15, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>> What happens for systems without native X11 installed? We could
>> automatically treat them as modular, but then if native X11R7 is later
>> extracted things would break - unless we recorded some state that the
>> system had been locked to modular
>
> The bootstrap script could do the heuristic and record the result
> (modular or native) in the mk.conf that it creates. This should avoid
> surprises like the one you mentioned.

(delayed response)

I think this would currently only apply to NetBSD - the one system on
which pkgsrc does not (currently) use bootstrap?