From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 14:00:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B7B16A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FD643D2D for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:00:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd27.aul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1DQn5t-0006Xj-00; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:49 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (XGEKs0ZYZetz4dKpt9NhkHXG22pZ4MiCYK7ixkhzSkyftCGdYSyb4E@[84.128.202.167]) by fwd27.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1DQn5i-2EGZge0; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:38 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])j3RE0d8J081560; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from 141.113.101.32 ([141.113.101.32]) by netchild.homeip.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20050427160039.udg3gvwzi84840s4@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:39 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com References: <20050425155955.89494.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050425155955.89494.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.2) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-ID: XGEKs0ZYZetz4dKpt9NhkHXG22pZ4MiCYK7ixkhzSkyftCGdYSyb4E@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: e37d5831-50a5-4ac7-b3f0-04ea72e692d6 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:00:51 -0000 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > - Bad press towards the 5.x series. If it doesn't mentions 5.3 explicitely, it doesn't apply. > - phk's axe broke one of my favorite ports and I didn't want to spend > another 6 months "fixing" it. You failed to tell which port you are talking about. > - I wanted to use XFree86-4 and building it on my own and figuring out the > library mess later is not an option. We still have the XFree86-4 port, and AFAIK it still works (everything else is a bug). You just have to set a variable in make.conf to make it the default. > - Although outdated, the downloadable java support package was available > for 4.x only. It should work on 5.3-release too. At least there was an effort to get it working, and AFAIK they succeeded. The next time just remember: Everything is possible, you just have to ask if you don't know how to do it yourself. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 We are simple killers of people and destroyers of property.