From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 13:28:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A2037B404 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A2EBD93; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13244; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:28:07 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2RLQoI74913; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: mpd Cc: "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 port is a horror!! References: <20020327140252.S36644-100000@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de> <20020327090256.A79819@rochester.rr.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 27 Mar 2002 13:26:49 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020327090256.A79819@rochester.rr.com> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mpd writes: > If done correctly, there is no need to reinstall anything. ... > The best way I've found to upgrade is to deinstall your old X But doesn't your "deinstall" step remove directories where other X11 applications have files installed? I think the need to reinstall those other X11 applications is what the OP was complaining about. I suppose that he (and I) need to learn how to keep other applications from putting stuff in those directories, but that's a lot easier said than done. And isn't it rather wasteful to rebuild font directories with every XFree upgrade? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message