xorg/xfree86

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:46:01PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > 
> > For FreeBSD 4.10 XFree86 is still the default. (Xorg is the default on
> > FreeBSD 5.x) 
> 
> Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that XFree86 was
> deprecated, and Xorg preferred; further, that this translates into
> Xorg being the default.

Yes, I am sure.
>From  /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk (this is the code that actually sets
the default):

.if ${OSVERSION} >= 502123
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM ?= xorg
.elif (${OSVERSION} >= 450005 && !defined(XFREE86_VERSION)) || \
        (defined(XFREE86_VERSION) && ${XFREE86_VERSION} == 4)
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM ?= xfree86-4
.else
X_WINDOW_SYSTEM ?= xfree86-3
.endif


The default is XFree86-4 for 4.x (except for early 4.x releases where
XFree86-3 is still the default.)
For 5.x the default is X.org.


> 
> See UPDATING in /usr/ports:
> 
> 20040723:
>   AFFECTS: users of FreeBSD-current, users of xorg
>   AUTHOR: anholt at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   The XFREE86_VERSION variable is deprecated and has been replaced by
>   the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may be set to xorg,
>   xfree86-4, or xfree86-3.  X_WINDOW_SYSTEM defaults to xorg on
>   FreeBSD-current.

I have read this before. It does not in any way contradict what I said.


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