Re: Debian PC Requirements
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote:
> Speaking of XF86 4.2, I would really like to be running it for the
> driver support for my card. So I was thinking of making a .deb from the
> source, just to prevent dependency problems. Obviously this .deb
> wouldn't follow any of the Debian conventions. Any ideas on this?
Packaging X is more grief than you want. I used to hybridise Debian Xfree86
4.1 with some stuff from Xfree86 cvs to produce a package for may laptop
for a while (until the patches I needed got merged in) and it was...
a little involved. You're better off waiting for the experimental packages
to turn up on Branden's site - check out the X Strike Force page at
http://people.debian.org/~branden/
for updates.
[ also, it takes about 3 billion years to compile, so if you've made a
mistake, you're in for another soul-destroying debug cycle... ]
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