Subject: Re: Unifying the handling for xsrc, XFree86, and freedesktop
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/05/2004 20:47:45
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>> =
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D28820+0+archive/2003/freebs
>> d-ports/20031116.freebsd-ports
>>
>> =
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D138926+0+archive/2003/freeb
>> sd-ports/20031116.freebsd-ports
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2003-November/000008.html
>> (This explains most.)
>
> ...becase Keith Packard forked freedesktop.org after he was kicked out
> of XFree86? That explains nothing -- not why he has kicked out, or why
> we should care.

The explanation why they're doing it is in the first link:

"""
XFree86 4.4 will be coming out in the not-so-distant future, and I'm
planning on making some changes to the XFree86 ports to reduce the pain
associated with upgrading and maintaining XFree86.
"""

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