Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:56:37 +0200 (CEST) From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@FreeBSD.org> To: "Marc Fonvieille" <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 chapter.sgml Message-ID: <18990.194.74.82.3.1183010197.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20070628054813.GB41771@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200706271739.l5RHd6sZ076571@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070627193513.GB34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682BD48.2090805@FreeBSD.org> <20070627195117.GC34249@abigail.blackend.org> <4682C040.3080701@FreeBSD.org> <20070627200801.GD34249@abigail.blackend.org> <20070627211149.GP84919@submonkey.net> <20070628054813.GB41771@abigail.blackend.org>
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Then feel free to document that part.
On Thu, June 28, 2007 7:48 am, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:11:49PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>> >
>> > Ports? I never talked about ports. I just meant someone that
>> installs a
>> > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE from CD (which is the way most of non-experts use)
>> > and installs all his applications and of course X11 from the packages
>> > available on these CDs, then the informations for the fonts or xdm
>> will be
>> > just wrong.
>>
>> No, but the handbook on their CD will match. The Handbook documents
>> -STABLE; that's been the convention since about forever and without
>> branching I can't think of any other way of doing it.
>>
>
> I don't think it's so simple cause you can run up-to-date -STABLE
> with your "old" Xorg version, etc. In this current case we can't change
> the X11 path without a warn to people still using previous Xorg version.
> I'm not against the change, I'm against the fact we will cause trouble
> to persons that are not following, for various reasons, the last ports
> collection evolutions.
>
> --
> Marc
>
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Kind regards,
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