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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: XFCE4
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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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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eitan Adler
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> 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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