From: Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:44:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120613164420.GA9653@mail.sceen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate>
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:28:59PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and it
> includes X server 1.12, at
> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we bother
> backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the complete X.org
> stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more appropriate solution. Or maybe
> I'm missing something obvious?
Simple lack of time on my part, and I thought it may still be useful.
> Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at adding
> features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or sometimes
> architecture-specific fixes, but large new features should not be added
> to packages using patches, otherwise Buildroot will become an
> unmaintainable crap of patches.
Agreed.
--
Richard Braun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 16:44 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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