From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 0: 6:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B82A37B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:06:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1D86VZ04490 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:06:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA22777 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:06:29 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 84251 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Feb 2002 08:06:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:06:29 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP/To Gui or not to Gui [ Was Re: CVSUP Error: Shared object "libXaw.so.6" not found] Message-ID: <20020213080628.GA84235@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: "Crist J. Clark" , Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020213070711.GA293@raggedclown.net> <20020212235441.E29413@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020212235441.E29413@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:54:41PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:07:11AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > This change in the ports is really causing a lot of confusion. > > Would it not be better to have "cvsup" as was, i.e. without GUI, > > and have a "cvsup-with-gui" as the option. Many people do not run X11 > > at all, so this would seem a more logical a way to go. > > > > I think it is called the principle of least surprise. > > cvsup(1) has always been the GUI version by default. Yes, but previously the package did not need to have X installed since the necessary libraries were statically linked into the cvsup executable. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message