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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:04:15 +0200
From:      Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion
Message-ID:  <20040723220415.GA63266@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>
References:  <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>

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Hi Eric,

Eric Anholt wrote on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:11:09PM -0700:
> OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. 
> No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time.  X.Org has
> been made the default X distribution on -current.  Other versions of
> FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg
> ports.  It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we
> are keeping the XFree86 ports around.  To upgrade:
[..]

Why does "keeping the XFree86 ports around" prevent one from
using portupgrade? I can specify a different port to
upgrade with with -o, like (simplified):

portupgrade -o x11/xorg XFree86-4.3.0_X

or are there other reasons why this is not possible?

Cheers,
 Daniel
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