From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jun 23 12:38: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B2437B401 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5NJc5P8051413; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.4/8.12.3/Submit) id g5NJc5vF051412; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:38:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: des@ofug.org Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not? Message-ID: <20020623123805.B51272@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , des@ofug.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com> <20020622204229.GG53232@elvis.mu.org> <20020622.225127.112566091.imp@village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020622.225127.112566091.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:51:27PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:51:27PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Only users who haven't yet entered the 90s and discovered xdm. > > I think this attitude is not helpful. Agreed. I have never, ever used xdm and even disable dtlogin on Solaris. I have always started X manually and intend to always do that. On a development system it is just a PITA to not be in this level of control. Mechanism, not policy. > I can't recall receiving a bug report from you. ^^^ ^Wpatch that would add back the granular menu of what X bits one wants to install. Or any other sysinstall patch that asks the user if they would like the Xwrapper installed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message