prevent ports from reinstalling XFree86

Peter Ulrich Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Thu Jun 24 01:53:05 GMT 2004


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Vulpes Velox wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:16:28 +0200 (CEST)
> Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root at pukruppa.de> wrote:
>> I am quite happily running xorg for about a week now.
>> What would be the recommended way to prevent ports from
>> reinstalling XFree86?
>
> Try recvsuping... it works on my 5.2.1 box... Xorg fails to compile on
> my 4stable box though...
Sorry, I think I didn't express myself correctly:
Xorg components built well, and the new meta port works fine, 
too.
But many ports depend on XFree86-libraries and -fonts.
What I wanted to know: Is there some way to keep them from 
reinstalling XFree86 components (during a portupgrade p.ex.)?

Uli.


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