Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:24:45 -0800 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients Message-ID: <20051114182445.GA1884@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051114180730.GJ31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> References: <pan.2005.11.14.17.02.43.659160@io.dk> <4378C7C0.8080308@dial.pipex.com> <20051114174214.GH31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> <4378D08C.2060103@dial.pipex.com> <20051114180730.GJ31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net>
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On 2005-11-14 13:07, Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:59:40PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>> I don't think so. Keep track of which ports you deleted the
>> dependencies from, then when you have the whole
>> xorg-clients/xterm mess sorted out, just force a re-install of
>> those packages and the right dependencies will come back.
>> Time consuming, but not rocket science ;-)
>>
>> I had to do something like that when interrupting
>> gnome_upgrade early seems to bugger everything a treat, but I
>> got everything back OK (I think!).
>
> Great ;) I'm still working on my first year with freebsd so
> this a great learning experience. Without getting too far OT,
> is there a quick explanation as to why xterm is a separate
> port? Does it take up so much space that it would "bloat" a
> standard Xorg/Xfree install?
New releases of xterm are made far more often than full X11
releases, so it makes more sense I guess. Every time a new
version of xterm is out, you don't really need to download &
rebuild monster-tarballs with all the X11 sources. A simple
portupgrade invocation takes care of updating just xterm:
# portupgrade -vuN xterm
That's probably why it's a separate port.
- Giorgos
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