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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:41:39 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how do I  fix this?
Message-ID:  <20120606194139.GA28038@slackbox.erewhon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120605223427.GC23645@thought.org>
References:  <20120604214304.GA29788@thought.org> <20120604182457.301b5d74@scorpio> <20120605045311.GB6634@thought.org> <20120605060435.GB21247@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20120605223427.GC23645@thought.org>

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:34:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > > 	what I  want to do is get as current as possible and then=20
> > > 	install 7.5.  and stay there.
> >=20
> > 7.5 what? Do you mean Xorg? Please try and be specific.
>=20
> 	FreeBSD-7.5.  pretty sure I saw something about 7.4 being
> 	upgraded to 7.5.

It doesn't look like it. From
http://www.nl.freebsd.org/releases/7.4R/announce.html:=20
"This will be the last release from the 7-STABLE branch."

7.4 is listed as a "legacy" release of the FreeBSD homepage. The only upcom=
ing
release listed is 9.1 somewhere this year.

> > Portmaster will first recurse through the port and all of its dependenc=
ies
> > (if any) to handle any port OPTIONS via the 'make config' interface,
> > before going off on the big build.
>=20
>=20
> 	one thing ive been doing is de-selection most  of the
> 	options..  the box is my server. we [freebsders] have lost
> 	the desktop 'market' .... =20

My desktop and laptop beg to differ. :-)=20

UNIX is a toolbox, not an appliance. So it was never meant for the "desktop
market". But that doesn't mean it cannot be used as such.
=20
Roland
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