How to switch from X.org to Xlibre?

scottro said:
So, it might affect the quality of his software. It defintely make me feel suspicious when he says how he was silenced.
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xlibre has a number of developers working on it (more than most Wayland projects). One of them is stefan11111 who has in the past done some great work at cleaning up fundamental libraries (i.e gtk+2).

Speaking of which, there is even more interest for X11 and Gtk+2 in recent weeks.
 
freezr said:
I see this:

Code: 
xlibre-nvidia-driver-595.58.03_2 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
xlibre-nvidia-driver-304-304.137_11 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
xlibre-nvidia-driver-340-340.108_5 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
xlibre-nvidia-driver-390-390.157_1 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
xlibre-nvidia-driver-470-470.256.02_2 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
xlibre-nvidia-driver-580-580.142 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
xlibre-nvidia-driver-devel-595.58.03 NVIDIA graphics driver userland

What are they? Regular Xorg packages renamed as Xlibre? 🤷‍♂️
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No. These are ADDED.

I myself didn't accepted, but x11/nvidia-driver is fravorized, as xorg and xlibre keeping xorg to be default. Others (x11/nvidia-driver-{304|340|390|470|580|devel}) are child (slave) ports that simply overriding versions, PORTREVISION and suffixes. So also affected and additional pkgs are built.

xorg flavor (the default) didn't change pkg names and stay as-is.
 
The about section of the FAQ does not seem alt-rights to me. There are other projects like SQLite, having particular CoC. It is a little paranoid, but there are also some facts in (partial) support of these stances.

Anti-vaxer can be a problem, but usually we collaborate remotely, so the risks are reduced :-)
 
MG said:
I have the idea it's an old X11R6 rip-off.
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Yes. At the era, Mk/bsd-default-versions.mk and USES framework were NOT implemented yet, thus, WITH_NEW_XORG Makefile variable was used to force xorg to be built instead of XFree86 (old X11R6 implementations) through the introduction of xorg and removal of duplicate ports are done at once.

This approach was very nice as it didn't confuse anyone who weren't understanding precisely what they were doing, and can be done much simpler with current ports framework. And was the way what I've proposed.
 
eternal_noob said:
XLibre is a scam, just use Wayland. 👻
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My experiences on Wayland were far, far more worse than Xorg.

So sticking with Xorg is the way to go until better alternatives appear, for example, UEFI evolves as hypervisor and provide all device supports as strictly standardized runtime / boottime services and basic windowing are done there (decorations and so on are kept per-OS / requesters).
 
T-Aoki said:
Yes. At the era, Mk/bsd-default-versions.mk and USES framework were NOT implemented yet, thus, WITH_NEW_XORG Makefile variable was used to force xorg to be built instead of XFree86 (old X11R6 implementations) through the introduction of xorg and removal of duplicate ports are done at once.

This approach was very nice as it didn't confuse anyone who weren't understanding precisely what they were doing, and can be done much simpler with current ports framework. And was the way what I've proposed.
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I installed it and ran it with the default twm.
But where's the project code? X11R6 and X.org already existed... The source code of the project itself without the dependencies. I think there's nothing and they only changed the former X11R6 file- and package names.
 
I did not insult anyone. I just raised valid questions. What I got in return was at least scottro insulting me. The rest of the comments I didn't read, but I can imagine that they include more insults. That speaks volumes of you lot, and says nothing about me.
 
AlfredoLlaquet, you made a rather sweeping generalization, which, from what else I've seen of what you've written, made it sound as if you were looking for a disagreement.. I should have said "deliberately obtuse" rather than obtuse. It was meant in a friendly way, I'm sorry if you took it as an insult.
 
Yesterday I tried to install Xlibre but it didn't ask me to remove X.org so I decided to not go over cause I didn't have time to dealing with a broken system. Perhaps I'll try again later today, in the afternoon… 🤔
 
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