cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 chapter.sgml

Remko Lodder remko at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 28 05:56:39 UTC 2007


Then feel free to document that part.

On Thu, June 28, 2007 7:48 am, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:11:49PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>> >
>> > Ports?  I never talked about ports.  I just meant someone that
>> installs a
>> > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE from CD (which is the way most of non-experts use)
>> > and installs all his applications and of course X11 from the packages
>> > available on these CDs, then the informations for the fonts or xdm
>> will be
>> > just wrong.
>>
>> No, but the handbook on their CD will match.  The Handbook documents
>> -STABLE; that's been the convention since about forever and without
>> branching I can't think of any other way of doing it.
>>
>
> I don't think it's so simple cause you can run up-to-date -STABLE
> with your "old" Xorg version, etc.  In this current case we can't change
> the X11 path without a warn to people still using previous Xorg version.
> I'm not against the change, I'm against the fact we will cause trouble
> to persons that are not following, for various reasons, the last ports
> collection evolutions.
>
> --
> Marc
>


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