Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:40:07 -0700 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Christopher Vance <vance@aurema.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is KDE installing in LOCALBASE; not X11BASE? Message-ID: <20030923134007.GG47671@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20030923113622.GA28105@aurema.com> References: <oprvvzb5z38ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <200309220850.13662.andy@athame.co.uk> <oprvv0alas8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <3F6F7C7A.7070702@gmx.net> <20030923113622.GA28105@aurema.com>
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:36:22PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: > On NetBSD and OpenBSD (yeah, I know ...) X is kept in CVS and built > like regular system sources. > > FreeBSD doesn't do this any more and uses regular ports instead. I FreeBSD never did it that way. That's a really bad approach IMHO and I never saw a good reason for it. There's nothing that special about XFree86. Regards, -- wca
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