Re: [Fink-devel] Merging xfree-*?

[Max H. <fin...@ma...>]

At 7:06 Uhr -0600 27.07.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>This was brought a while ago, and the reason I didn't do it was this:
>
>1)  Most apps don't need a server to compile, they just need the libs.  So
>having the X11 dependency met by xfree86-base makes sense.
>
>2)  You don't have to have xfree86-rootless to run X11 apps.  You can use
>Xvnc, or Oroborus X (which comes with it's own custom XDarwin).  Or you
>can run them remotely over a ssh tunnel.
>
>3)  XDarwin will only build on OSX, not bare Darwin.
>
>So, I don't think we should merge them.  I see no reason to force people
>to build XDarwin unless they want to, especially since it is possible to
>get along fine without it.

In addition,

4) There is no way to get a painless update path for people. We would 
have to tell everybody to use dpkg to force remove xfree86-*, then 
install the new xfree86 package. I'd like to avoid this if possible...



Cheers,

Max
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