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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:54:41 -0600
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xfree4 by default?
Message-ID:  <20020102125441.Y16101@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C334C5A.A5E56055@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:07:22AM -0800
References:  <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org> <78699.1009878927@winston.freebsd.org> <200201021425.g02EPks11288@dungeon.home> <3C334C5A.A5E56055@mindspring.com>

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* Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [020102 12:07] wrote:
> Stephen McKay wrote:
> > >It wouldn't be that hard in sysinstall either, depending on how
> > >the X bits are packaged.  FWIW, I also think that XFree86 4.x's time
> > >has come.
> > 
> > None of my current video cards work properly with 3.3.6, so I'm all for
> > adding 4.1.0 immediately, rather than post release.  Any chance?
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> Why isn't "X" a _package_ instead of a weird-ass tarball?

I don't know!  Maybe it's how the Xfree people distribute it?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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