Unhappy Xorg upgrade
James Bailie
jimmy at mammothcheese.ca
Sun Feb 1 05:17:14 PST 2009
I agree with all you say. This sort of thing is the achilles heel of
ports. I'd like to see a beta port exist side by side with the old
version, for massive ports like X, KDE, etc, until things stabilize.
Alex Goncharov wrote:
> No -- a patch might (*should*, for this kind of a disruptive change)
> be put together: I'd install it on my systems, I'd try it and report
> problems, I'd revert back -- easily. This is for many "I"s willing to
> be the testers -- we'd repeat this again as many times as necessary,
> before the commit.
--
James Bailie <jimmy at mammothcheese.ca>
http://www.mammothcheese.ca
More information about the freebsd-ports
mailing list