On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:04 AM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > So with xorg-server-1.8.0 (and 1.9.0), HAL (and old PolicyKit-0.9) can > be dropped from the book? I think it is time to start testing, but that > means no Xorg update in the book for a while. I was thinking that I > might just go ahead and do a 7.5 update anyway since I know it is stable > and I've just about got it ready to go as that would leave something > fairly recent until an official 7.6 is upon us, which was supposed to > occur next month anyway. However, beyond the 7.5-3, the 7.6 update will > basically be updated server and a handful of client libs and apps, and > nearly a complete rewrite of the configuration section. Gotta come up > with something for /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (this will be minimal as I > don't even use an xorg.conf any longer as things just work out of the > box) and some sample udev rules (though I don't fully understand the > interaction yet). Hold your horses, DJ. We do have a few packages that aren't ported to gudev/UDisks/UPower yet in stable releases, like KDE 3.5, for instance (but I think it can be done with a few tweaks, and there is work in SVN to implement UDisks in KDE4, as a Solid backend), and stable releases of XFCE (but they don't seem like releasing any new releases, but there is work in Git for GUdev support, and LXDE [specifally PCmanFM] has UDisks support in the Git version of libfm). But I can tell you one thing that we can drop: Devicekit. It's obsolete, and nothing uses it. > What else has gone? Is server-1.9.0 stable with the rest of the current > client software? Nothing needed from git to use all features of the new > server? If so, I should actually just scrap my existing plans, ditch the > Xorg official "Release" cycle and just do a mix and match, and call it > just Xorg (no release number). Seems that the distributions have been > doing individual releases anyway, BLFS excluded. Good time to scrap > bitmap fonts and go with a full TTF/OTF setup. I'd go right ahead and straight for 1.9, since it has preformance enhancements. But that is just me.
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