What distros/flavours provide modular X.org?

[Robin Cook]

We are currently working on it in Sourcemage.  It is available in a
devel section.

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:58 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> (I carbon-copied this to two lists. Maybe consider only replying back to 
> the x-packagers list.)
> 
> What Unix/Linux/Other Vendors' distributions or flavours provide modular 
> X.org?
> 
> Does x.org or freedesktop.org have a wiki page that lists them? I'd be 
> interested in taking the results of the replies and putting into the wiki. 
> (What page should I use or create?)
> 
> Any URL(s) specific to the overall modular work for specific distros?
> 
> What versions (and date) did the official release of the distribution 
> include modularized X.org?
> 
> Does it also provide monolithic X.org (or XFree86) as an alternative? if 
> so, what is the default and are they interchangeable (without having to 
> reinstall all X-using packages)?
> 
> If not in the distro yet, is it expected in upcoming release? When?
> 
> Are all the individual components as provided by X.org as seperate files 
> provided as separate packages (one-to-one)? If not (like one package 
> covers multiple X.org components), why?
> 
> One reason, why I am asking this is I am curious to see what one line 
> descriptions and paragragh descriptions are used for the various packages 
> by different vendors. (I'd like to help get the empty READMEs with some 
> useful content.)
> 
> To answer the above for NetBSD, DragonFly, PkgLinux and other pkgsrc using 
> systems:
> 
> They do not have a modularized X.org yet. A few components (older xlibs 
> versions) are in official pkgsrc and many of the modular X.org packages 
> are in pkgsrc-wip (work in progress) but not completed. NetBSD comes with 
> native XFree86 in default installation (if you choose X). And XFree86 and 
> monolithic X.org 6.82 is available via pkgsrc. "Native" is the default for 
> NetBSD, and XFree86 or Xorg via pkgsrc are optional (and install to 
> different places). On DragonFly and PkgLinux, Xorg from pkgsrc is the 
> default for X. If you choose a different X and want to remove the other, 
> you must rebuild all your packages. There is current work on the 
> monolithic Xorg 6.9.0 packaging too.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
> 
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