From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 18:34:56 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 3D57716A42D for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:34:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E379343D73 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1204508nzo for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:34:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:sent-from-pda:user-agent; b=Cxi3i9wKNUJDgQpyYNFwKLjZjvbhLGZguylgyKSuz8T49TEw0tPfOiEF9uJ8oEilRwnDLkvAglvx0jFwcXLKDHjHxm3bZsThKKFcqMDDSHX9nLbqyaEVYxoh7JOVLheiESUUts3pEWeHWTCEdWzBY2R21Bj5qD0Vee2hNkM3uHM= Received: by 10.64.10.8 with SMTP id 8mr6069109qbj; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ( [204.107.76.229]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q16sm2648349qbq.2005.11.14.10.34.42; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:34:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:34:40 -0500 From: Mike Hernandez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051114183439.GN31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4378C7C0.8080308@dial.pipex.com> <20051114174214.GH31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> <4378D08C.2060103@dial.pipex.com> <20051114180730.GJ31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> <20051114182445.GA1884@flame.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051114182445.GA1884@flame.pc> Sent-From-PDA: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i 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 18:34:56 -0000 On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:24:45AM -0800, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the quick and concise reply. It made sense to me to have the xorg-clients and server parts as separate pacakges, but I couldn't figure out why xterm would be alone. Now I have an idea :) Mike