Web site and file issues.

[Mr E_T]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:18, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:13:10AM +0800, Mr E_T wrote:
> > Thanx - But the modular X11 is in a lot of pieces instead of just the base 11
> > packages.
> 
> 'Base 11 packages'?  There was only ever one tarball.
the main projects - libs extras doc etc
> 
> > This has just confused the build even more than the old imake system.
> 
> This is something that distributors (including myself) have consistently
> and repeatedly pushed for.  If you must build X yourself, I suggest you
> investigate tools like jhbuild, which will let you build the entire
> thing with a single command.  A 'build.sh' script is also provided in
> the util/modular CVS directory to build the entire thing from a CVS
> checkout.
that kills my install process - I use a LSF/BLFS system and use checkinstall
to create backup rpms. To be forced to use a script instead of a single
config/makefile system is stupid in my opinion.

If Xorg is going that way only - then I have to go back to XFree86.
I switched to Xorg because of its simplicity - will leace because it became
to complex. :{

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regs MR E_T
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