Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:46:35 GMT From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/140703: add xorg-minimal as alternative for X11 Distribution installation Message-ID: <200911191846.nAJIkZTB038110@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200911191850.nAJIo2tc051949@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 140703
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: add xorg-minimal as alternative for X11 Distribution installation
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 19 18:50:02 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Helfman
>Release: 7.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
Experts Exchange
>Environment:
FreeBSD eggman.experts-exchange.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
add xorg-minimal as alternative for X11 Distribution installation
-suggestion per maintainer of port
Attempted to fix this particular portion of document per standards I believe I met.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml.orig 2009-11-19 10:33:01.000000000 -0800
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml 2009-11-19 10:42:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -339,11 +339,18 @@
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r xorg</userinput></screen>
- <note><para>The examples above will install the complete
+ <note>
+ <para>The examples above will install the complete
X11 distribution including the
servers, clients, fonts etc. Separate packages and ports of X11
- are also
- available.</para></note>
+ are also available.</para>
+
+ <para>To install an minimal X11 distribution you can
+ alternatively install <filename role="package">x11/xorg-minimal
+ </filename></para>.
+ </note>
+
+</note>
<para>The rest of this chapter will explain how to configure
X11, and how to set up a productive desktop
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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