Re: Removing obsolete packages

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:57:09PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> That will be fine. I was waiting from jlam to tell about his plans for 
> this. I think he asked me to hold off from importing the modular xorg to 
> pkgsrc until he could research this further.

Yeah, I know. I was discussing the details with him as well.

> That will be great if you can help with this. Maintaining current xorg for 
> too long makes no sense as it is not maintained upstream either.

I try to keep it working for now, that's why I am inclined to move
forward to modular Xorg as well :-)

> Continued integration with XFree86 in pkgsrc and with native X will get 
> harder -- but I am guessing as this gets little maintenance XFree86 will 
> be removed from pkgsrc.

Jup, XFree86 is pretty much dead. I might take the time and convert it
to an Xserver only package, the rest is useless.

Joerg

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