Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:20:31 -0700 From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x.org discussion Message-ID: <1088634031.93277.14.camel@zircon> In-Reply-To: <opsafg8bzd9aq2h7@mezz> References: <40E3176E.40903@imagescape.com> <1088632355.93277.4.camel@zircon> <opsafg8bzd9aq2h7@mezz>
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On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:10, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:52:36 -0700, Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:41, Punahele Tannehill wrote: > >> Having just scampered through a thread on questions@, I'm curious about > >> people's > >> opinions and experiences are with X.org system as compared to XFree86. > >> Especially in terms of how it may or not affect future development of > >> Gnome. > > > > I just replaced XFree86 with X.org. It took quite a bit of work, even > > with the meta-port. I had major trouble with the meta-port due to > > poorly=specified prerequisites and inability of portinstall to operate > > on it. > > I have no problem here with pkgdb to replace XFree86 to xorg. Did I say *anything* about pkgdb in my message? I cannot use portinstall/portupgrade to install/upgrade xorg because the ports do not appear in the ports database. I cannot use portsdb to update the ports database because someone changed it to no longer ignore errors related to missing languages. Since I do not have, for instance, any japanese directories in my checked-out files, portsdb -Uu fails dues to inability to find these requirements when rebuilding the database. It used to blithely ignore these errors, but no longer does. Therefore, I cannot rebuild the database to include the xorg ports, therefore I cannot use portinstall/portupgrade to install/upgrade the xorg ports. pkgdb -F still works fine, except I do not know what XFree86-fontScalable corresponds to. /Joe
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