On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Steffen Daode <[email protected]> wrote: > |> Hi, > |> I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official > |> supported graphical environment. > > What i really miss compared to 4.* and 5.3 (and compared to NetBSD > and OpenBSD) is that there is a single package with a known name > that can be downloaded and unpacked and you have a X11 environment > to go. > > I have not searched the archives for the "when" and "why" of the > decision to drop it. But its absence really hurts me.
Rant and rave to the Xorg developers. With the release of Xorg 7 they broke it up into a bazillion separate packages, each with their own development cycle, releases, packaging, etc. Xorg "releases" are now nothing more than a snapshot of the various sub-packages that's slightly bug/beta tested together. There's really no difference between Xorg development and Linux distro development. :( There's really nothing that FreeBSD devs can do about this unless they want to fork Xorg completely. -- Freddie Cash [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
