From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 24 20:20:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA39737B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA81267; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:20:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:20:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Bryan Liesner Cc: Juha Saarinen , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Window Managers In-Reply-To: <39F650B9.2548AF34@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Bryan Liesner wrote: >Juha Saarinen wrote: >> >> Got XF86 4.0.1 running on a new 4.1.1 install, and would like to add a >> somewhat less Spartan wm than twm. >> >> However, going through the ports, it seems that all the ones listed >> require XF86 3.3.6, which I don't want to install for obvious reasons. Is >> there any way to avoid this when I install a wm, or is the install script >> smart enough not to install the older version? > >As a workaround, just create directories called XFree86-3.3.6 and >XFree86-3.3.6_2 in /var/db/pkg and the install script won't grab >the older packages or ports. s/workaround/hack/ ;-) -- Brandon D. Valentine "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message