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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:18:47 -0500
To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>,
        David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>
From: "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu>
Subject: Re: More about ports and packages and XFree86
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At 03:44 PM 1/22/99 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Shanes wrote:
>
>> To add more info - I installed XFree86 when I installed 2.2.6 -release, but
>> never used it as it lacked support for the Neomagic chipset. I want to
>> install 3.3.3 since it now has support. Do I need to *uninstall* the old
>> version first?
>
>No. You could probably remove everything under /usr/X11R6 downwards
>and install, if you like.

Huh?  Wouldn't it make more sense to just define FORCE_PKG_REGISTER when
building the new version of X?
rm -rf /usr/X11R6/ is pretty drastic, he's going to lose _everything_.
Including:
	1.  Custom config information.
	2.  3rd party programs and libraries which install under /usr/X11R6/
	3.  3rd party fonts (If there are any installed).

'cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86; make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install' would
probably be a little more realistic.


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