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[Jeff Rollin]

On 12/09/06, Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 11:29:31 AM, Jeff confabulated:
>
> >>
> >>
> >> The base system doesn't include X Windows.
> >> _____________________________________
>
>
> > Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so
> it
> > must be installed as a package from sysinstall).
>
> Shouldn't you also be able to:
>
>   cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean
>
> --


That sentence was intended not to mean "you have to install XWS as a package
from sysinstall" but "It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a
package built from ports".

Jeff Rollin