From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 15 6: 3:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bne004m.webcentral.com.au (bne004m.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D4A137B4EC for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 06:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31418 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 14:03:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warhawk) (203.147.160.62) by bne004m.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 14:03:35 -0000 Message-ID: <019401c09758$9f775cd0$0100a8c0@warhawk> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "David Johnson" , "Belfred I Antonio" Cc: References: <20010214172236.288B737B4EC@hub.freebsd.org> <3A8ACB14.BFF81594@acuson.com> Subject: Re: Questions, XFree86 and K Desktop Environment Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:06:47 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Johnson" To: "Belfred I Antonio" Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:14 AM Subject: Re: Questions, XFree86 and K Desktop Environment > Belfred I Antonio wrote: > > > I just installed FreeBSD 4.2 onto my system and i installed XFree86 3.3.6 and KDE 1.x. If i > will install XFree86 4.x do i need the XFree86 3.3.6 or v4.x can stand alone? Same as in if > i will install KDE 2 do i need to install also the KDE 1.x? > > I'm not sure about the full ramifications of XFree86-4, so you should > ask on -questions about that. But there is no need to keep kde-1.x > around if you're using kde-2. However, there are a few programs in ports > that still need kde-1 as a dependency. Look in the port Makefile before > installing any kde program to make sure that it's for kde-2 and not > kde-1. Hopefully these old dependencies will disappear soon. I've found kde2 unstable as.....crashes the minute it starts up. It does look nicer, though. This was an install I did about 2-3 months ago...don't know if things are any better now. ('twas not on my box) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message