From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:55:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4tiwi7f.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:28:59 +0200")
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
Thomas> Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and
Thomas> it includes X server 1.12, at
Thomas> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we
Thomas> bother backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the
Thomas> complete X.org stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more
Thomas> appropriate solution. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious?
Thomas> Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at
Thomas> adding features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or
Thomas> sometimes architecture-specific fixes, but large new features
Thomas> should not be added to packages using patches, otherwise
Thomas> Buildroot will become an unmaintainable crap of patches.
Agreed.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-13 16:08 [Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support Richard Braun
2012-06-13 16:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-06-13 16:44 ` Richard Braun
2012-06-13 17:01 ` Will Wagner
2012-06-14 5:56 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-06-14 15:59 ` Julian Lunz
2012-06-14 5:55 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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