From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 15:14:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA9E37B417 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 75534901A00; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:12:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:12:59 -0500 From: mpd To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: mpd , "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 port is a horror!! Message-ID: <20020327181259.A51308@rochester.rr.com> References: <20020327140252.S36644-100000@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de> <20020327090256.A79819@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from swear@blarg.net on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:26:49PM -0800 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 On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:26:49PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > 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? No. If you deinstall the port correctly, it will only remove the files that were installed with the port. The +CONTENTS file in each port's directory in the ports db (/var/db/pkg or wherever) allows for that. > 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? Yes, but that's no longer necessary because the port is componentized now, with XFree86-4 being just a meta-port. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "POKEY PLEASE PASS THE SALT!" - Little Girl from "POKEY AND THE PIRATES" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message