Peter B. Steiger wrote these words in BLFS-Support on 05/23/06 20:06 CST: > Per someone's recommendations last week I thought I'd give the x.org > modular system another try with the latest'n'greatest... unfortunately > 7.0-specific documentation hasn't been updated* but there are a lot of > changes, and the "everything" folder where you can download the whole > enchilada doesn't actually have everything required by the modules. > > Using the BLFS book and the build scripts at x.org as a guide, I worked > up a build order for the 7.1 modules that was going along pretty well > until libICE demanded xtrans, and other packages complained about the > lack of libX11... which indeed is not in the "everything" directory.
[Peter, if you're reading this, I'm using your message as an example, and nothing is intended by your example, other than to make a point about a different thread earlier today] Until these types of issues are resolved, does it make any sense to even contemplate removing XFree? I don't think so. DJ has said in recent posts, that the 7.1 update is to happen any day now. As soon as BLFS moves to 7.1, what do we do with Xorg6.9? It might be that the recent XFree update has more bug fixes and updates than the Xorg 6.9 code. If so, wouldn't XFree be the more attractive package to keep so we can still provide a simple build? In my opinion, we cannot solely count on Xorg7.x until there isn't a support issue every day. The instructions are not yet where they need to be to support Xorg7 as the only X package. As I asked earlier, and is the most pressing questions, what are we going to do with Xorg6.9 when 7.1 comes out which has a different code base? I'm even thinking that if XFree must go because nobody will offer to install it as their primary X package, and continue to monitor issues with it (which is a perfectly legitimate reason to let it go), that keeping Xorg6.9 in the book is something we must consider. Just some idle thoughts. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 20:08:00 up 11 days, 12:08, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.96, 0.48 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
