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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:10:27 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp
Subject:   Re: Making XFree86-4 the default
Message-ID:  <20000910101026.B15703@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:43:42AM -0700
References:  <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Saturday,  9 September 2000 at  6:43:42 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What do you guys think about making XFree86-4-* the default now?  With
> the split-up XFree86-4 ports and the xtt-* servers (which are
> basically 3.3.6 servers plus TrueType patches), I think everyone can
> have a reasonable system.
>
> Those who don't want XFree86-4 can still set XFREE86_VERSION=3 in
> their /etc/make.conf, but I will be generating packages with XF8V set
> to 4 and also the package build logs will be showing up for 4 only.
>
> There are still many ports that have problems with XFree86-4 (most
> notable the HTML manpage stuff) but we have 2 months to fix those
> before the next release.

I'd definitely like to see this.  I'm in the process of writing the
fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and it's a sensible time to
describe 4 instead of 3.

I can't address the bugginess issues, except to say that they don't
seem to be biting me.

Greg
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