On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:36:28AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:42:50PM +0000, Pablo Baena wrote: > > I tested Xfree86 4.0 days ago. It works (for me) but there are quite a lot > > packages that won't work anymore with it (or quite work). So, Xfree86 4.0 > > definitively wont't enter potato, and it will be hard to release it > > even in woody since all the problems it will generate with anything else. > > So leave Branden alone, and if you want Xfree86 4.0, go get the source > > from www.xfree86.org. You'll be surprised on how smoothly it compiles > > and installs itself! > > One reason I tore into Sven so hard on this point is that he actually is an > XFree86 Developer (as am I). I would expect members of that development > team to know how to build X from source. I would not insist upon such > knowledge from Debian users generally, or from very many of my fellow > Debian developers.
yes i know how to compile and install X, that's not the problem, what worries me is the dependencies, if you don't install full X 4.0, you will get bad colors in xterm, and other such problem, and now that dri is merged back youw will have conflicts with mesa as well. maybe having xfree/mesa stub packages could solve this, like it was done fro the svgalib-dummy package i don't know, and this discution is off topic here. Friendly, Svne LUTHER
