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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> To be correct it should probably be
> 
> PREFIX?=        ${X11BASE}      # This port itself does not require Xlib
> .if ${XFREE86_VERSION} == 3
> MTREE_FILE=     /etc/mtree/BSD.x11.dist
> .else
> MTREE_FILE=     /etc/mtree/BSD.x11-4.dist
> .endif

With a new release of XFree86 on the way, as well as the new refactored
codebase from freedesktop.org, does it still make sense to try to support
this older version?  Is the only advantage that some older video cards
are not supported in the later versions?

mcl