Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:47:23 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and XFree86 4.0.2 problem Message-ID: <20010201104723.F923@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:09:02AM -0500 References: <20010123101200.B542@naver.co.id> <20010131115547.C2268@webcom.it> <200101311336.f0VDaTk81098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it> <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net>
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:09:02AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> Uh, nothing prevents you from installing XFree86 4.0.1 - you can just
> download the sources and make World yourself.. it's not like you really
> need ports for this.
You don't even have to do that, at least for now:
cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server; make install clean
followed by installing all the x11-fonts/XFree86-4-font* ports
(oh, and x11/XFree86-4-{documents,manuals} if you wish).
In fact, that's what X-aware ports do on bento anyway, so if you're
installing packages, there may very will be "interesting"
inconsistencies.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.. x11/XFree86-4 is an
anchronism that needs to die, or at least turn into a metaport.
It's also not prefix-safe, seeing as how it dumps a load of
stuff into /etc/X11 (my / partition is read-only, with symlinks
for a few things that really do need to be read/write).
Failing that, and given that various mailing lists are full of
people having major problems with XFree86 4.0.2, the whole damn
thing should be backed out to 4.0.1 (which worked), repo-copy
over to x11/XFree86-4-devel (or something) with 4.0.2, and then
those that want to sit down and nail the problems can do so,
without affecting the majority of end-users that probably could
care less about 4.0.1 vs 4.0.2 -- they just want an X that *works*.
-aDe
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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org
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