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Subject: Re: xfree4 by default?
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 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?

I was under the impression that it was compiled for distribution
against the FreeBSD version being distributed, by the FreeBSD
CDROM builders, not by the XFree people.

...not that I'm not grateful that it's not a "split tarball",
like bin, compat1x, compat21, compat22, compat3x, crypto, dict,
doc, games, info, manpages, proflibs, sbase, sbin, scontrib,
setc, sgames, sgnu, slib, slibexec, srelease, ssbin, sshare,
ssys, stools (amazingly funny name 8-)), subin, susbin.

8-)

It just seems to me that the choice of X server is a bit more
locked in than it should be, and that arguing over "which one"
assumes that you can only have one on the ditribution media,
which doesn't strike me as the correct argument to be having.

--Terry

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