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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:12:23 +0100
From:      Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why do all ports want Xfree86 3.3.6_8?
Message-ID:  <20010417101223.A85480@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010417000645.O13449-100000@benny.geektank.org>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:09:50AM -0700
References:  <20010417000645.O13449-100000@benny.geektank.org>

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* Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> [010417 08:11]:
> While I was browsing the +CONTENTS in a bunch of ports in /var/db/pkg,
> i noticed that a huge number of ports depend on XFree86 3.3.6_8. I"m just
> wondering why this is the case.  I have XFree8i6 4.0.3_3 installed,
> and when I tried installing the MTR port (/usr/ports/net/mtr), it kept
> looking for some gtk library -- so I had to installed gtk 1.2.  After
> looking at the dependencies for mtr, I noticed that even the mtr port
> depends on Xfree86 3.3.6_8!  Why would all these ports depend on a version
> of Xfree86 that I don't even have installed? Should I manually change
> these depencies to 4.0.3_3?

Or put

XFREE86_VERSION=4

in /etc/make.conf.
-- 
Rasputin
Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns

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