Re: x11 clashes of base and pkg [Was Re: Confusing versioning scheme of freetyp2?]

To: pkgsrc-users <pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: x11 clashes of base and pkg [Was Re: Confusing versioning scheme of freetyp2?]
From: Cág <ca6c%bitmessage.ch@localhost>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 13:10:12 -0400

Mayuresh wrote:

> By exclude I assume you are suggesting so to NetBSD architects to not even
> have it in the base.

Exactly.

> Curious about the thought process behind having x11 in the base. Any
> idea about other BSD systems - do they have x11 in the base?

Free/Dragonfly don't have it in the base. NetBSD cannot go the OpenBSD
path because it has pkgsrc. OpenBSD, having Xorg in the base, doesn't
have it in the repository; all packages are linked against the base
X11. I guess there are none that have it both ways.

--
caóc

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- x11 clashes of base and pkg [Was Re: Confusing versioning scheme of freetyp2?]
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