From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 27 18:11:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7778137B416; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073D62B6CB; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 03:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 31F14352; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:11:19 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:11:19 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020428111119.B77837@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020427221418.J56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020427135344.D89190@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020428104843.K56612@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:58:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > The problem what I was refering to was that an application from the > > BASE OS was relying on a library in the PORTS SYSTEM. > > XFree86 isn't part of the base system. It's a port/package that > has a little bit of special support in sysinstall(8). Too true. Oh well, I hope that somebody will think about the possible problems before it gets shipped and I just wanted to give them my experiences. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message