Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Warren
>Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:30 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed
>
>
>In all the time of asking for various help and providing
>details, the fact of
>if the machine has been upgraded has never been relevant and
>was still not
>relevant in the end.

Why are you so defensive?

It is likely that if we had known that this wasn't a fresh install,
the initial line of questioning would have been based on the assumption
that there were leftovers in the system that wern't expected to be there.
As
it turned out there was - the imake left over from the 5.x probably,
although since you haven't posted a confirmation that Dejan's
suggestion actually worked (until now) there was not enough info
to speculate as to why your system got broken to start with.

Didn't it occur to you when you read Daniel's question to you
that you hadn't supplied the list with enough information to help
you?  Why would he have asked what version of FreeBSD were you running
in the first place?

I am merely pointing out that vague questions are generally what
sparks discussion, and therefore those who dislike discussion would be
well advised to avoid posting vague questions.

>The fact was the discussion was about why i was
>bothering with XFree86 on a 5.x when xorg is def which had completly no
>bearing on the inital problem.

Well, you say you had the imake used with xorg installed, and you seem
to be saying that correcting this fixed the problem.  While you may not
have ever before had an imake installed on this system, it seems quite
likely that your imake came in when you did your upgrade to 5.x

> But i ended up getting the help i needed.

You were lucky, the usual results of being vague with questions are not
generally productive.

It is also polite to thank the poster to the list who actually made the
suggestion that helped you to fix the problem, as well as to let him and
the list know that it did in fact, work.

It is a sad day when someone as rude as I am find myself lecturing on
politeness! :-)

Ted