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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:56:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>
To:        newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing X
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.980610175130.27684B-100000@shell1.cybercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980611022753.65391@welearn.com.au>

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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote:

: Errr... that sounds like it :-) To tell you the truth, I just look in my
: ~/.profile (the default one) where there's a comment saying you can
: include these paths if you want to have X or games. Then I paste them
: into the line below, counting and distinguishing between colons and
: semicolons carefully. I think it's really silly that these are not
: included in the path already, but someone clever must have had a reason
: for it.


The simple reason appears to be that the X Windowing system and the games
are not installed by default in the base system.  Sometimes users install
a minimal set of utilities onto a small system just to run some basic
utilities.  Last thing they need is a pre-configured path pointing to
directories that aren't on the system.

K.S.


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