On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 16:26, David Dawes wrote: > 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." Thank you. > >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. Unless a Debian Developer specifies that a packagage requires "xserver-common (< 4.4)", which would royally steam me.... Also, you'd have to match how each major distro packages XFree86. Tossing it all, for example, into xfree86.deb would break everything that depends on it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx Jefferson, LA USA All of the "reporting" about Laci Peterson & Michael Jackson reminds me of the Don Henley song "Dirty Laundry": "Can we do the operation? Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet. Get the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry." _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
