Re: Two new categories created. Comment needed
Christopher Faylor wrote: Harold Hunt has just, without any discussion here, created two new categories. One is understandable and probably doesn't require discussion. He's changed XFree86 to X11. Oddly enough, XFree86 isn't currently listed as a category in setup.html so I've added X11 to the list of supported packages. Yup, sounds good. The other, more controversial addition is ZZZRemovedPackages. Actually, it appears to have been around for a while -- I first saw it a a month ago or more. But I think it's a good idea; its purpose seems obvious. (I may be chiming in late here, as I wend my way down the thread...) -- Chuck
Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? (fwd)
Harold, I really hate to say this, but I told you so... :-D Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:26:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Anybody userwaldoattheeggbeaterdotnet To: cygwin-xfreeatcygwindotcom Subject: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? When I do a fresh install, I see that a couple of packages in the removed packages section are still selected. These are XFree86-base and XFree86-bin. Are these really necessary is I install xorg-x11-base and xorg-xll-bin?
Re: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? (fwd)
pechtcha wrote: Harold, I really hate to say this, but I told you so... :-D Yeah, this name change business is a bit of a pain. I hope that this whole X11 feud gets resolved eventually, so people can get back to harmony and cooperation rather then wasting energy and resources on maintaining separate forks. Then again, they aren't our packages, so who are we to say? Cheers, Nicholas
Re: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? (fwd)
Nicholas Wourms wrote: pechtcha wrote: Harold, I really hate to say this, but I told you so... :-D Yeah, this name change business is a bit of a pain. I hope that this whole X11 feud gets resolved eventually, so people can get back to harmony and cooperation rather then wasting energy and resources on maintaining separate forks. What are you talking about? David Dawes is having a good time working on XFree86 by himself and everyone else is working on the X.Org project; I don't see any energy being wasted at all. Reason this is on-topic: The name change didn't really matter since I waited to do it until a full release was made, at which point everyone would have to re-download all packages anyway. Okay, that's all the education about the X world that is on-topic for this list. Harold
Re: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? (fwd)
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Nicholas Wourms wrote: pechtcha wrote: Harold, I really hate to say this, but I told you so... :-D Yeah, this name change business is a bit of a pain. I hope that this whole X11 feud gets resolved eventually, so people can get back to harmony and cooperation rather then wasting energy and resources on maintaining separate forks. Then again, they aren't our packages, so who are we to say? Cheers, Nicholas Umm, Nicholas, I didn't mean the renaming (which I support), I meant the if it's removed, why is it selected comment (in the original message). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
