Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:55:27 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <78699.1009878927@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:28 CST." <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org>
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It wouldn't be that hard in sysinstall either, depending on how the X bits are packaged. FWIW, I also think that XFree86 4.x's time has come. - Jordan > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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