From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 15:21:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from altair.mukappabeta.net (altair.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E53837B403 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 15:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by altair.mukappabeta.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 30B9C34E; Sat, 19 May 2007 00:21:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:21:58 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: "S. Roberts" Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" , ecerejo@zapo.net, kstewart@owt.com, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X Message-ID: <20070518222157.GA3282@altair.mukappabeta.net> References: <1021731694.84212.15.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3CE682D7.5040102@dccnet.com> <1021753098.84212.163.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1021753098.84212.163.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 S. Roberts writes: >XFree86-3.3.6 was installed during installation via /stand/sysinstall, >so that means that its there as a distribution (right?). Does this >really mean performing: >1] rm -rf on /usr/XFree84* >2] Re-build all ports that depend on XFree86 > >Say it ain't so! I think you can keep the old libraries (and hence don't have to rebuild existing programs), since they're compatible with the (new) X server anyways (at least at protocol level.) The clean way would be to rebuild all X apps, after having replaced the entire X hierarchy, tho. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message