From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 19:21:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13BF337B403 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8D62B72E; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 04:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 63D3312F; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:21:46 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:21:46 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Upgrading X windows Message-ID: <20011025122146.Q554@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Nathan Mace , freebsd-questions References: <20011024210550.3380b0a2.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> <20011025112919.H552@k7.mavetju.org> <20011024215058.15c62d99.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011024215058.15c62d99.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:50:58PM -0400 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 Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:50:58PM -0400, Nathan Mace wrote: > so bascially you saying mr -rf /usr/X11R6 and pkg_remove qt/gtk to get > the majority of graphical apps and then pkg_delete the remaining > graphical apps and then install X from the ports and start all over > again installing my apps from ports? it wouldn't be bad at all if i > could do it without reinstalling all my apps. You of course can try it without uninstalling /usr/X11R6 first, but it's not something I recommend. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message