From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Sep 9 17:40:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE5E37B424; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8A0eRt15811; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:10:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:10:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Satoshi Asami Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: Making XFree86-4 the default Message-ID: <20000910101026.B15703@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:43:42AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 9 September 2000 at 6:43:42 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Hi, > > What do you guys think about making XFree86-4-* the default now? With > the split-up XFree86-4 ports and the xtt-* servers (which are > basically 3.3.6 servers plus TrueType patches), I think everyone can > have a reasonable system. > > Those who don't want XFree86-4 can still set XFREE86_VERSION=3 in > their /etc/make.conf, but I will be generating packages with XF8V set > to 4 and also the package build logs will be showing up for 4 only. > > There are still many ports that have problems with XFree86-4 (most > notable the HTML manpage stuff) but we have 2 months to fix those > before the next release. I'd definitely like to see this. I'm in the process of writing the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and it's a sensible time to describe 4 instead of 3. I can't address the bugginess issues, except to say that they don't seem to be biting me. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message