From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jun 23 6: 9:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2460637B404; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 06:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 29DE95362; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:08:39 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: bright@mu.org, will@csociety.org, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not? References: <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com> <20020622204229.GG53232@elvis.mu.org> <20020622.225127.112566091.imp@village.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 Jun 2002 15:08:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020622.225127.112566091.imp@village.org> Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "M. Warner Losh" writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Only users who haven't yet entered the 90s and discovered xdm. > I think this attitude is not helpful. xdm broke badly on the last set > up upgrades I did to X. startx is the only thing that still works for > me. I don't think your attitude is helpful either. You should be trying to figure out (or helping someone try to figure out) what's wrong with xdm, rather than whining about it. Maybe *this* is what's really wrong with FreeBSD: people seem more comfortable whining about bugs and building up grudges towards those they think are responsible for them, than trying to actually fix them. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message