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Subject: Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
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Andrew P. wrote:
> On 1/13/06, offbyone <offbyone@xs4all.nl> wrote:

>> 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND
>>   is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x?
> 
> Look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
> 

Nope, that is not it. Turns out the solution for this is a variable set 
in /etc/make.conf

/usr/ports/UPDATING at 20040723
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#WHICH-X
point the way

In the case of the problem system I was working on,
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in /etc/make.conf solved it.

- Jake