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Re: XFree86 port broken?
In <20041128134651.S30599@xxxxxxxxxxx> walt wrote:
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> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Rapha=EBl=20Marmier=20 wrote:
> ..
> ..
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>> FYI I decided to installed XF86 rather than X.org because I saw in
>> the other posting that it can cause dependency problems later on (one
>> post mentions the mandatory use of portupgrade with special settings
>> to ignore XF86)...
>
> I don't know which post you are referring to, but I've been using X.
> org for many months with no dependency problems. (That is why I have
> no recent experience with XF86, so I can't help you with that problem.)
>
> The only 'special setting' I have is this line in /etc/make.conf:
> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg
>
> X.org is the preferred X distribution for FreeBSD, so I don't think
> they will do anything to make life difficult if you decide to use
> X.org. So far I have had no problems.
>
>
thanks
I was refering to this post:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2004-11/msg00109.html
but anyway, I will follow your advice and go with xorg. I hadn't
realised that xorg had become the mainstream on DFSD.
Raphael
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