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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:33:03 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        joeb <joeb@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, freebsd@edvax.de, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XFCE4
Message-ID:  <20081103153303.GA30359@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBAEHBCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <490E7A98.1050403@gmail.com> <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBAEHBCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com>

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:38:07PM +0800, joeb wrote:

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> FBSD1 wrote:
> > What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop
> environment?
> > I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one.
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> I'm going to rake a random guess: x11-wm/xfce4 ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eitan Adler
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM
> To: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG
> Subject: Re: XFCE4
> 
> Thank you for your random guess, but research of the ports system seem to
> indicate a whole suite of ports are needed to build a complete working
> environment.
> Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports
> they used to build their XFCE4 desktop.

If there are dependancies, then, if you install/build from ports, it
should pull in all the dependancies, build and install them automatically
from the xfce4 port build.    That is what is so nice with the port
system - or one of the big things anyway.

Other than that, I don't understand what you could be asking.

////jerry


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