On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:58:58PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hello, > >on 03/02/04 21:54, David Dawes wrote: >> The answer is to bypass the middle man and go straight to the >> source. I'd like to see a range of package formats available from >> the XFree86 ftp site so that people can more easily exercise their >> freedom to run what they want without their vendor's "approval." >IMHO this is not the point: even ATM you can run XFree86 w/o your vendor's >"approval", you have just to grab the sources and compile them by yourself. And >you're in completeley *freedom* do to that, AFAIK with all the distributions, as >no one forces you to use Debian|RedHat|Mandrake|* packages in place of sources. >But I think that in theory a distribution maintainer for XFree86 should know >XFree86 on that distribution better than any other XFree86 developer, so he's >the first address for any problem which could be specific to that distribution. >And IMHO this is surely a real added value. > >On the other hand, even if XFree86 provides different package formats, how can >you be sure that they will be completely integrated in the different >distributions? I mean, about dependencies, platforms, libraries and so on... If >I install the XFree86 4.4.0 package on my Debian and some other software >installed don't work anymore because some conflicts? Should I manually compile >the non-working softwares or the XFree86 itself? Again, IMHO this is a >distribution-specific work, not an XFree86 one. Everyone can make their own choice. I am interested in providing more choices. I also want to let everyone here know that XFree86 is committed to providing our software to the general public, with or without the cooperation of the distributions. David _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
