Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion

From: Eric Anholt <eta_at_lclark.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:18:09 -0700
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.

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Eric Anholt                                eta_at_lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 19:18:13 UTC

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