From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 1 8:47:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hub.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2415F37B65D for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ade by hub.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14OMtH-0000Mb-00; Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:47:23 -0600 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:47:23 -0600 From: Ade Lovett To: Will Andrews Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and XFree86 4.0.2 problem Message-ID: <20010201104723.F923@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010123101200.B542@naver.co.id> <20010131115547.C2268@webcom.it> <200101311336.f0VDaTk81098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it> <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:09:02AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message