XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Mar 30 18:03:20 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> 
> I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was
> looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and
> discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't
> think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do
> wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet.  It's
> been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the
> XFree86 site.
> 
> There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are
> there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job
> to port it and deal with dependencies?

The latter.

Kris
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