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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 2002 04:40:55 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Dear all,

As decided by the release engineering and port manager teams,
I have switched the default XFree86 version from 3.3.6 to 4.2.0.
Packages for FreeBSD 4.x are now being built with XFree86-4.2.0
as a dependency, and ports will also be built with the newer
version once you update to a newer -STABLE kernel.

If you want to keep using XFree86-3.x with your port builds,
add the following to your /etc/make.conf:

XFREE86_VERSION=3

Note that this will not affect the XFree86 version dependency
of packages downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org or its mirrors,
because those are determined at compile-time and cannot be
changed at install-time.

XFree86-3.3.6 will still be available as an installation option
via the packages menu of sysinstall, but the default XFree86
version will be 4.2.0 in 4.6-RELEASE.

Since this is a nontrivial change and the 4.6 release cycle is
just around the corner (code freeze: May 1), please test this
as much as possible and report any problems or unexpected
behaviour to ports@FreeBSD.org and portmgr@FreeBSD.org.

Kris

P.S. The decision to upgrade from XFree86-3.3.6 to 4.2.0 in
a -STABLE branch was made after careful consideration of the
benefits and drawbacks of such a change.  Therefore, please
try to resist the temptation to point out factors we have
already considered which weigh against this decision.

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