Re: XFree86 modularization

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:43:13AM -0400, David Dawes wrote:
> Most of this is irrelevant to the Linux target audience.  That doesn't
> mean that it is irrelevant to XFree86's audience.
> 
> As for the argument about having multiple versions of things like freetype
> installed, XFree86 can be configured to build and use externally supplied
> version of externally maintained dependencies like freetype, so that is
> really a non-issue.  The approach XFree86 has taken on this provides
> workable solutions for all of its user base, not just today's largest
> subset.

Agin, why do they need to be part of the XFree tree?  That just leads
to this horrible confusion.  Having tarballs of known-good version on
the XFree ftp server is like a much, much better approach.  This will
give people who want it those versions but avoid the problem of
using them accidentally.