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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:28 -0600
From:      Steve Price <steve@freebsd.org>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, arch@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xfree4 by default?
Message-ID:  <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800
References:  <20011231174113.O16101@elvis.mu.org> <XFMail.011231154319.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com>

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> 
>   I agree that we should make the switch in -STABLE immediately after
> FreeBSD 4.5 is released.  Every other x86 Unix I've been exposed to
> has been using X4 for over a year.  The arguments about older
> supported hardware do not hold water any more since X4 supports so
> many newer chipsets out of the box that X336 can't handle.

All of the recent package builds have been with XFREE86_VERSION=4.
I'm not sure how long for sure but for as long as I can remember
which isn't saying much.  Making it the default shouldn't be all
that difficult in bsd.port.mk.  Don't know how hard it would be
for sysinstall and friends.

-steve

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