Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:54:20 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Walter Venable <weaseal@hotmail.com> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 in make.conf Message-ID: <4132B2FC.50205@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <BAY18-F1463GbQfdw88000831d8@hotmail.com> References: <BAY18-F1463GbQfdw88000831d8@hotmail.com>
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Walter Venable wrote: > > > A couple of things: > xorg is the default X windows system in 5.3. You must explicitly say if > you want Xfree86. See below. Also, you are talking about two > intentionally separate directives. The one that asks XFREE86_VERSION > was put in place when Xfree86-4 came onto the scene and some people may > have still preferred version 4 over version 3. The X_WINDOW_SYSTEM > directive lets you choose between Xorg and Xfree86. > > -Walter Venable > That is not quite right. My reading of ports/UPDATING is that XFREE86_VERSION in /etc/make.conf currently does nothing. X_WINDOW_VERSION can be set to xorg, xfree86-4 or xfree86-3. Right now, a person moving from FreeBSD-4.x to FreeBSD-5.x is going to get a surprize when they try installing any ports that use X Windows. When they see this, the info they might read needs to be accurate, especially if they want to stay with XFree86. What is written in ports/UPDATING is good, but what is written in x11/XFree86-4/pkg-message is wrong. I was mislead by it, and I imagine that so can other people.
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