Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:10:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Steve Price <steve@freebsd.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, arch@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <20020103101018.D12254@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020102144957.J4619@tao.org.uk> References: <20011231174113.O16101@elvis.mu.org> <XFMail.011231154319.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com> <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org> <20020102144957.J4619@tao.org.uk>
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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
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