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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:27:15
Message-Id: 43D71948.1010409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:00:14 -0700 Joshua Baergen
3 > <joshuabaergen@g.o> wrote:
4 > | To be clear here: nothing will be broken. Xorg 7.0 will just not
5 > | provide virtual/x11 (and in fact blocks it), so there will be issues
6 > | with blocks showing up due to the upgrade path. Avoiding the upgrade
7 > | (and blockage) is very easy if necessary (eg, you use 200 unported
8 > | packages or something).
9 >
10 > That is exactly the issue. Your average ~arch user is going to get
11 > pages and pages of nasty red incomprehensible blocks simply because
12 > you're making Xorg 7 block the virtual rather than provide it.
13
14 Where are you getting this idea of pages and pages? Your previous
15 statement was that the average ~arch users would likely have a couple of
16 unported apps. Unless they're using 1-line terminals, this just doesn't
17 translate to "pages and pages" for me.
18
19 Thanks,
20 Donnie

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