Web site and file issues.

[Mr E_T]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:41, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > 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. :{
> 
> Let me be the first to say that your contribution will be sorely
> missed, and how was X.org simpler than Xfree86, we just imported their
> tree... it would have been the same not more complex or simpler...
You didnt screw up the mesa and builds
an updated mesa could just be dropped in - You cant with XFree86 - they confused
the build process. You also put the experimental drivers in your releases
properly. When I switched it was because I use a via unichrome - Xorg supported
it - XFree didnt.

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regs MR E_T
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