XFree86-4 in make.conf

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Walter Venable wrote:
> 
> 
> A couple of things:
> xorg is the default X windows system in 5.3.  You must explicitly say if 
> you want Xfree86.  See below.  Also, you are talking about two 
> intentionally separate directives.  The one that asks XFREE86_VERSION 
> was put in place when Xfree86-4 came onto the scene and some people may 
> have still preferred version 4 over version 3.  The X_WINDOW_SYSTEM 
> directive lets you choose between Xorg and Xfree86.
> 
> -Walter Venable
> 

That is not quite right.  My reading of ports/UPDATING is that 
XFREE86_VERSION in /etc/make.conf currently does nothing. 
X_WINDOW_VERSION can be set to xorg, xfree86-4 or xfree86-3.  Right now, 
a person moving from FreeBSD-4.x to FreeBSD-5.x is going to get a 
surprize when they try installing any ports that use X Windows.  When 
they see this, the info they might read needs to be accurate, especially 
if they want to stay with XFree86.  What is written in ports/UPDATING is 
good, but what is written in x11/XFree86-4/pkg-message is wrong.  I was 
mislead by it, and I imagine that so can other people.