From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 18:25:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E15016A41F for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mailgate.bytemobile.com (mailgate.bytemobile.com [209.10.233.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A1543D46 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:24:45 -0800 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051114182445.GA1884@flame.pc> References: <4378C7C0.8080308@dial.pipex.com> <20051114174214.GH31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> <4378D08C.2060103@dial.pipex.com> <20051114180730.GJ31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051114180730.GJ31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Nov 2005 18:24:55.0906 (UTC) FILETIME=[B685B420:01C5E948] Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:25:26 -0000 On 2005-11-14 13:07, Mike Hernandez wrote: >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:59:40PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >> I don't think so. Keep track of which ports you deleted the >> dependencies from, then when you have the whole >> xorg-clients/xterm mess sorted out, just force a re-install of >> those packages and the right dependencies will come back. >> Time consuming, but not rocket science ;-) >> >> I had to do something like that when interrupting >> gnome_upgrade early seems to bugger everything a treat, but I >> got everything back OK (I think!). > > Great ;) I'm still working on my first year with freebsd so > this a great learning experience. Without getting too far OT, > is there a quick explanation as to why xterm is a separate > port? Does it take up so much space that it would "bloat" a > standard Xorg/Xfree install? New releases of xterm are made far more often than full X11 releases, so it makes more sense I guess. Every time a new version of xterm is out, you don't really need to download & rebuild monster-tarballs with all the X11 sources. A simple portupgrade invocation takes care of updating just xterm: # portupgrade -vuN xterm That's probably why it's a separate port. - Giorgos PS: Please, ignore the automatically forced 'footer' below. It's automatically added by the Exchange server I'm behind of and has no relation whatsoever to non-work email I post. ----------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, do not forward this email to any other person, delete this e-mail and destroy all copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal.