From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 2 6:50:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9235937B41A; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:50:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 24FC654D; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:49:57 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:49:57 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Steve Price Cc: Murray Stokely , John Baldwin , Alfred Perlstein , arch@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <20020102144957.J4619@tao.org.uk> References: <20011231174113.O16101@elvis.mu.org> <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com> <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2uG6jHjFLimDtBY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org>; from steve@freebsd.org on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 06:39:28PM -0600 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 --J2uG6jHjFLimDtBY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 06:39:28PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > All of the recent package builds have been with XFREE86_VERSION=3D4. > 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. What's the best way to use it? We appear to have a monolithic port XFree86-4, and then -clients, -documents, -libraries, -manuals, imake, etc. The dependancies don't appear to work too well between them, when using portupgrade. Joe --J2uG6jHjFLimDtBY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwzHhQACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZFHgCfYCsHg3qvFMUd2hHehRIVouOR FS8An35TQOAlrBQGTHGjSpCr1m4xtyRU =g4NT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2uG6jHjFLimDtBY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message