From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 10 14:56:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29440 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zephyr.cybercom.net (zephyr.cybercom.net [209.21.146.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29430 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by zephyr.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00627 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:56:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA27812 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:56:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.cybercom.net: ksmm owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:56:35 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive X-Sender: ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing X In-Reply-To: <19980611022753.65391@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: : Errr... that sounds like it :-) To tell you the truth, I just look in my : ~/.profile (the default one) where there's a comment saying you can : include these paths if you want to have X or games. Then I paste them : into the line below, counting and distinguishing between colons and : semicolons carefully. I think it's really silly that these are not : included in the path already, but someone clever must have had a reason : for it. The simple reason appears to be that the X Windowing system and the games are not installed by default in the base system. Sometimes users install a minimal set of utilities onto a small system just to run some basic utilities. Last thing they need is a pre-configured path pointing to directories that aren't on the system. K.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message