From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 09:23:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468B216A4E5 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:23:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AE543D66 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:23:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (mailman.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E8E17B850; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:23:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([193.2.4.66]) by localhost (mail.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z6kUyEa2vbM9; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from edina.ijs.si (unknown [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80:88:2e0:81ff:fe2d:22a2]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429D317B865; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from radagast.ijs.si (radagast.ijs.si [193.2.4.168]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by edina.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFCC508A6; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:23:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.ijs.si (localhost.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) by radagast.ijs.si (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k559NUrH025302; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:23:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) From: Dejan Lesjak To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:23:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <4483F479.2020100@netspace.net.au> In-Reply-To: <4483F479.2020100@netspace.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606051123.30711.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: Subject: Re: XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:23:52 -0000 On Monday 05 June 2006 11:08, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > Most distros have switched to Xorg, but i want to use XFree86 (i'm adding > features to it). I'll migrate from Debian-sid to FreeBSD if things are > suitable. > > I find Xorg has gone backwards by creating all kinds of build dependencies > on the host environment by using Autoconf and dpkg. > > If i use XFree86, will any of the ports package dependencies complain about > not having Xorg? Packages will complain, ports shouldnt though. You need to set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable in make.conf (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-VERSION). > Is XFree86 ports in FreeBSD up to date and maintained, or will i need to do > it myself? Well, I'm trying to maintain it, you are welcome to help though :-) There is currently patch to upgrade ports to 4.6.0 at http://people.freebsd.org/~lesi/xf46-277.diff Dejan