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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients
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Eric Ekong wrote:

>Check /usr/ports/UPDATING.  There should be a fairly recent
>entry discussing how to deal with this. Actually it is the first
>listing in /usr/ports/UPDATING....
>
>20051113:
>  AFFECTS: users of x11/xterm, x11/xorg-clients, x11/XFree86-4-clients
>  AUTHOR: x11@FreeBSD.org
>
>  Xterm no longer installs with '-static' prefix. Users should upgrade
>  XFree86-clients to 4.5.0_1 or xorg-clients to 6.8.2_1 or newer before
>  attempting upgrade of xterm to 206_1 or newer. Previous versions
>remove
>  xterm on deinstall so CONFLICTS have been set accordingly.
>  
>
This does *not* explain what to do when the xorg-clients build *fails* 
when nvidia-driver is installed, nor how to recover if you do something 
like delete the xterm port.  This entry explains why upgrading xterm 
before xorg-clients will fail, but not why upgrading xorg-clients fails.

--Alex