XFree86

[Russell Shaw]

Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> On Monday 05 June 2006 11:08, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>Most distros have switched to Xorg, but i want to use XFree86 (i'm adding
>>features to it). I'll migrate from Debian-sid to FreeBSD if things are
>>suitable.
>>
>>I find Xorg has gone backwards by creating all kinds of build dependencies
>>on the host environment by using Autoconf and dpkg.
>>
>>If i use XFree86, will any of the ports package dependencies complain about
>>not having Xorg?
> 
> Packages will complain, ports shouldnt though. You need to set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM 
> variable in make.conf (see 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-VERSION).

Hi,
I read that part before.

I'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but have been reading about it for a few hours.

When you say packages will complain, will they stop when i use

   X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4

and most things that rely on X will be happy?

>>Is XFree86 ports in FreeBSD up to date and maintained, or will i need to do
>>it myself?
>  
> Well, I'm trying to maintain it, you are welcome to help though :-) There is 
> currently patch to upgrade ports to 4.6.0 at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~lesi/xf46-277.diff

thanks