Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 20:33:56 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems installing Xaw3d? Message-ID: <20051102013356.GA75555@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051102012600.GA21282@soaustin.net> References: <20051101085231.GG18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051101090511.GB89188@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051101073027.GD18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051101082610.GA80303@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051101084439.GF18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051101085120.GA87912@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051101090114.GH18710@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051101090427.GA89188@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051101215146.GI56043@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20051102012600.GA21282@soaustin.net>
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--PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:26:00PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 November 2005 at 4:05:11 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:22:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > >> Linux distributions install all this stuff by default. If we don't, > > >> why should we expect anybody to care about trying? > > > > > > It works by default. Something is wrong on your system and your > > > system alone. > >=20 > > That's barely possible, but unlikely. I'm sure other people install > > like this. >=20 > I wonder exactly how many people are installing from packages instead > of from ports. I personally suspect that there are some hidden 'gotchas' > in the former that don't get sufficiently exercised. (I could mention > the inability of this idiotic laptop to run portupgrade as installed > from the 5.4 CD -- still undiagnosed.) Well, it can't be too bad, since pointyhat installs all dependencies from packages (in particular the X packages are not broken in the way Greg was suggesting). Greg's problem seems to have been trying to use some old version of X with the current ports tree, and this kind of thing is explicitly not supported. Kris --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDaBeEWry0BWjoQKURAqw4AJwJ99OT0IXPHvBLoLzCVBeQweDqZACdGKQe WjG29GNcsoByAvmIQFVjKvU= =xTRD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--
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