FreeBSD X.org going modular

Well, not yet, but that’s not too far.

Two days ago, I started working on the experimental xorg-modular ports tree hosted by lesi (Dejan Lesjak, co-maintainer of x11 ports). I’ve done quite a few things, but I’m not going to detail everything here because it would be pointless. So, there are still some things to do but basically most of the work is done (see TODO list). You can also have a look at my tinderbox to see what is currently broken and what is ok.

I’ve been talking with linimon who said that portmgr was planning an exp-build to see the effects of a LOCALBASE/X11BASE merge. I don’t see xorg-modular happening in ports before this is done (having Xorg 7.1 installed in X11R6 sounds a bit silly, to say the least). So we still have some time left to polish things.

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