Xorg 6.8.1

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Sat Feb 26 11:57:12 GMT 2005


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:36, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> ISTR not that long ago - when ports were updated from 6.7.0 - people were
> reporting random freezes and crashes with the new version of Xorg. This
> seems to have died down now so I might consider the update, which might not
> be a bad idea given how many other ports are dependent on 6.8.1 and try to
> update half the system...

You don't need to update a port just because it depends on Xorg. The X API is 
quite stable so you can update just Xorg without expecting any problems. (I 
did XFree86 -> Xorg with zero problems for example)

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