Some confusion about XFree86

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Jan 1, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> As I explained, "Ports that depend on XFree86 only do so in the  
> event that you have not installed Apple X11." To take your example  
> of pango, look at how the dependency is defined in the pango portfile:

I think Tabitha's question suggests another, however.  Given that the  
center of gravity has clearly shifted over to X.org (and the fact that  
Jeremy Huddleston and Ben Byer have substantially evolved that code  
base over what shipped in Leopard, said collection of packages / git  
branch checkouts needing a bit of manual labor to currently install),  
why is XFree86 the fall back at all?   Even if the intention is not to  
install it, it seems like there should still be a more sensible  
default now.

- Jordan