XFree86-4 in make.conf
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen at math.missouri.edu
Sun Aug 29 21:54:22 PDT 2004
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.
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