Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:54:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2... Message-ID: <20070608145433.490df383.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <294439d20706081139l241ec4b6p83347ccb9d5847bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <294439d20706081139l241ec4b6p83347ccb9d5847bc@mail.gmail.com>
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In response to "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded to xorg 7.2 by doing a complete portupgrade. I run > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, with the default kernel, and default settings. > Initially I had about 230 packages installed, and after the upgrade > the number has gone up to 450! Lot of these seem to be X related > packages. > > Does xorg 7.2 have more dependencies, and hence so many ports were installed? As best I can tell, xorg has been reorganized so that instead of a few large ports, it's now a whole bunch of small ports. Theoretically, this should allow faster/easier updating, and eventually allow you to deinstall a lot of xorg that you don't need (for example, drivers for video cards you don't have) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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