From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 13 18:58:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20954 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20947 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id LAA24222; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:57:41 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970714115741.38405@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:57:41 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Chuck Robey Cc: Randall Hopper , Nathan Dorfman , FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: upgrading XFree86 References: <19970713114946.61308@ct.picker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Jul 13, 1997 at 01:03:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jul 13, 1997 at 01:03:25PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > >> Chuck Robey: >> |I want to upgrade my XFree86 to 3.3, but I have a ton of stuff in my >> |existing /usr/X11R6 ... does anyone know if XFree86 can be upgraded via an >> |overlay? Otherwise, this's gonna be the upgrade from hell ... >> >> I know what you mean. For the same reason we compile non-X ports into >> /usr/local, I'd sure like to see our X ports compiled for /usr/local/X11. > >This'd be pretty difficult, I think, because of imake's very incestuous >relationship with the X11R6 tree. It would be a fantastic win, but I just >don't think it'd be possible. It should be possible, but the task isn't a trivial one. I'd really like to see it happen though. I'd do it myself if I could still see the end of my TODO list. David