Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:05:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: re@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <XFMail.020101230535.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <78699.1009878927@winston.freebsd.org>
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On 01-Jan-02 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > 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. Actually, the current tools in src/release/x11 will work with X 4 as well as far as generating the necessary tarballs. They would just need some slight tweaks to change what ports are built. This would allow one to not have to change anything in sysinstall but the comments. However, switching over to using the various XFree86-4-* ports would be cleaner assuming they are kept as up to date as the XFree86-4 port is. > - 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 >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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