Why xf86-* ?

Peasantoid · 2009-06-01 19:34:18

Why are many of the X11-related packages prefixed with xf86-... when Arch doesn't use XFree86 or even have it in the repositories?

lucke · 2009-06-01 19:49:19

Look at PKGBUILDs, it's upstream.

Last edited by lucke (2009-06-01 19:49:44)

Peasantoid · 2009-06-01 19:51:24

Aha. That doesn't really explain it much, but hell, that's now a question for the Xorg devs.

.:B:. · 2009-06-01 19:58:48

My guess is because Xorg's forefather was called Xfree86.

Now, do I win anything?

Anonymo · 2009-06-01 22:36:57

maybe no one else thought about it or it breaks certain legacy code

Last edited by Anonymo (2009-06-01 22:37:22)

jlimon · 2009-06-02 00:21:57

Anonymo wrote:

maybe no one else thought about it or it breaks certain legacy code

This is probably the correct answer.

Most of the OS X api is still prefixed with NS from the NeXT days..

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