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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:30:47 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists
Message-ID:  <20010918093047C.jkh@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com>

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No reason - it's a hold-over from the days when we only got our
bits from XFree86.org, and they used an earlier release of FreeBSD
to build them.

- Jordan

From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 01:28:28 -0700

> I would like to commit this patch unless someone can justify why
> installing XFree86 3.3.6 (which is built with the release) requires these
> bits.
> 
> Index: dist.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/sysinstall/Attic/dist.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.175.2.23
> diff -u -r1.175.2.23 dist.c
> --- dist.c	16 Sep 2001 03:41:17 -0000	1.175.2.23
> +++ dist.c	18 Sep 2001 08:23:52 -0000
> @@ -222,12 +222,6 @@
>  	Dists |= DIST_XF86;
>  #ifdef __i386__
>  	Dists |= DIST_COMPAT22;	/* For certain old X applications */
> -#if __FreeBSD__ > 3
> -	Dists |= DIST_COMPAT3X;
> -#endif
> -#if __FreeBSD__ >= 4
> -	Dists |= DIST_COMPAT4X;
> -#endif
>  #endif
>      }
>      if (isDebug())
> 
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
> 
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