From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 2 15:40:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843BF37B41E; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8FBF078313; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:10:18 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:10:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Steve Price , Murray Stokely , John Baldwin , Alfred Perlstein , arch@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <20020103101018.D12254@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011231174113.O16101@elvis.mu.org> <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com> <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org> <20020102144957.J4619@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020102144957.J4619@tao.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 2 January 2002 at 14:49:57 +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 06:39:28PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: >>> >>> I agree that we should make the switch in -STABLE immediately after >>> FreeBSD 4.5 is released. Every other x86 Unix I've been exposed to >>> has been using X4 for over a year. The arguments about older >>> supported hardware do not hold water any more since X4 supports so >>> many newer chipsets out of the box that X336 can't handle. >> >> All of the recent package builds have been with XFREE86_VERSION=4. >> I'm not sure how long for sure but for as long as I can remember >> which isn't saying much. Making it the default shouldn't be all >> that difficult in bsd.port.mk. Don't know how hard it would be >> for sysinstall and friends. > > What's the best way to use it? We appear to have a monolithic port > XFree86-4, and then -clients, -documents, -libraries, -manuals, imake, > etc. The dependancies don't appear to work too well between them, when > using portupgrade. I'm all for the change, but I'd like to see some direction pretty soon: I'm about to hand in the final manuscripts for "The Complete FreeBSD", 4th edition, and I'd like to be able to describe it there. Does XFree86 4 have a useful configuration utility yet? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message