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To: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG>
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	John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>,
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Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? 
In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG> 
   of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:28 CST." <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org> 
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:55:27 -0800
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
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It wouldn't be that hard in sysinstall either, depending on how
the X bits are packaged.  FWIW, I also think that XFree86 4.x's time
has come.

- Jordan

> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > 
> >   I agree that we should make the switch in -STABLE immediately after
> > FreeBSD 4.5 is released.  Every other x86 Unix I've been exposed to
> > has been using X4 for over a year.  The arguments about older
> > supported hardware do not hold water any more since X4 supports so
> > many newer chipsets out of the box that X336 can't handle.
> 
> All of the recent package builds have been with XFREE86_VERSION=4.
> I'm not sure how long for sure but for as long as I can remember
> which isn't saying much.  Making it the default shouldn't be all
> that difficult in bsd.port.mk.  Don't know how hard it would be
> for sysinstall and friends.
> 
> -steve
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