Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:18:09 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <1090617489.2748.42.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <20040723210221.GA17594@panix.com> References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> <20040723210221.GA17594@panix.com>
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On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:02, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:11:09PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > > OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. > > No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has > > been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of > > FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade > > by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. > > Thanks very much! > > If one has already upgraded to the xorg ports, what is > necessary so that dependencies of other modules are switched > to the xorg equivalents? That is, right now, every time I > upgrade a port that depends on X, I have to pkgdb -F and > change XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 to xorg-fonts-type1-6.7.0, > etc. etc. through all the different ports. Nothing. Unless your system defaults to XFree86 (older than -current), in which case you set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in make.conf. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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