From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13322 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2004 10:54:16 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 Aug 2004 10:54:16 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BsJPP-00040U-Is for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:54:11 +0000 Received: (qmail 6722 invoked by uid 89); 4 Aug 2004 10:54:11 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25710 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2004 10:54:10 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:52:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1089375713.8755.5.camel@antares.hausnetz> <40EEF952.8030405@skylineaero.com> <20040710011614.1a86df1d.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040710011614.1a86df1d.spider@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_TAMEBWQ9bwUV2cA"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408041253.07259.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 2004.2 Profile X-Archives-Salt: a14b4d3f-b696-4aae-aa3e-ccbd6c1b0cf0 X-Archives-Hash: 4ae50f6020e914e29bb15f49a7aeb65f --Boundary-02=_TAMEBWQ9bwUV2cA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:16, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:00:18 -0500 > > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > I don't understand why the switch from xfree to xorg-x11 is a big > > deal. They are currently source and binary compatible. Almost > > everything (if not everything) works the same with xorg-x11 as it > > did with xfree. > > Except that if you do something like this : > emerge sync; emerge -u world > cp -a /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/ssh /etc/pass* /etc/grou* /etc/shad* > /etc/conf.d /etc/pcmcia /etc/rc.conf /var/lib/portage/world /backup > As far as I know this is not an issue with xorg-x11 at all. In any case=20 the needed removal of xfree is a manual step that should tell users that=20 something important changed and that they should be aware of it. I don't=20 see where a new profile is necessary. Especially since it is allready=20 very easy to run xorg-x11 and all initial bugs/issues have about been=20 solved. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_TAMEBWQ9bwUV2cA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBEMATbKx5DBjWFdsRAkF6AJ4r0Tc4J+1c9uaYvj+OdtIor3ssswCgvWoL o9SPJdNin7evr/D50/3ikdQ= =qDbw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_TAMEBWQ9bwUV2cA--