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Subject: Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
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On Friday 11 December 2009 04:56:39 pm you wrote:
> Well, you now need to either select X during install or install
> it from ports after the installation.
> 
> ////jerry
> 

I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there 
have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to manually select one or the 
other.

Thanks for the answer.