From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Wagner Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:01:19 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] Pull request for branch x11r75patches In-Reply-To: <0D753D10438DA54287A00B027084269763682CDFC9@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net> References: <4B96D09D.4070100@carallon.com> <0D753D10438DA54287A00B027084269763682CDFC9@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net> Message-ID: <4B96D33F.9010107@carallon.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 09/03/2010 22:58, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: > On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:50 PM, Will Wagner wrote: > >> I have setup a repository with my x11r7.5 changes merged into Paulius's >> changes that have already been commited. >> >> Most just bump things to newer version, but also have converted mesa3d >> to autotools and added more option support when building xserver. >> > Hello, > > Just an observation... > > Is it really necessary for the x11r7 packages to have the version information > in the Config.in? I don't think any of the other packages show this in the > help and it just adds more work when the versions get bumped. If a user > "really" needs to know what the version is they can look at the associated > *.mk file. > > I would agree completely, updating all the Confin.in files was a real time waster when updating x11. Guess I could generate new patches that remove it if people are interested.