From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 22 21:51:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD62A37B400; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g5N4pfY68202; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:51:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5N4pYG41388; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:51:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:51:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020622.225127.112566091.imp@village.org> To: des@ofug.org Cc: bright@mu.org, will@csociety.org, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com> <20020622204229.GG53232@elvis.mu.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Alfred Perlstein writes: : > Not having 'startx' or having a 'startx' that doesn't work is : > really a bad idea. It _will_ annoy users. : : Only users who haven't yet entered the 90s and discovered xdm. I think this attitude is not helpful. xdm broke badly on the last set up upgrades I did to X. startx is the only thing that still works for me. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message