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Date:      Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:35:05 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 breaks ports collection
Message-ID:  <20030323003505.GA31503@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030323002855.GA83375@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20030322225237.GA82960@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030322234433.GA30963@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030323002855.GA83375@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:28:55PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:

> I checked src/UPDATING and the freebsd-ports and
> freebsd-current mailing lists.  There is no entry
> or HEADSUP that states the new XFree86 4.3.0 port
> has broken the ability to use the ports collections
> on all FreeBSD systems with older versions of
> XFree86-4 installed.  Perhaps, an entry in src/UPDATING
> stating that FreeBSD Portmgr is dictating a mandatory
> upgrade of XFree86-4 to 4.3.0 is in order.

Uhh..the ports collection has NEVER supported using mixed old/new
versions of ports.  There's nothing new going on here, and portmgr is
not "dictating" anything: I'm just explaining reality to you.

Kris

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