Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:00:39 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast Message-ID: <20050427160039.udg3gvwzi84840s4@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050425155955.89494.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050425155955.89494.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com>
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pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > - Bad press towards the 5.x series. If it doesn't mentions 5.3 explicitely, it doesn't apply. > - phk's axe broke one of my favorite ports and I didn't want to spend > another 6 months "fixing" it. You failed to tell which port you are talking about. > - I wanted to use XFree86-4 and building it on my own and figuring out the > library mess later is not an option. We still have the XFree86-4 port, and AFAIK it still works (everything else is a bug). You just have to set a variable in make.conf to make it the default. > - Although outdated, the downloadable java support package was available > for 4.x only. It should work on 5.3-release too. At least there was an effort to get it working, and AFAIK they succeeded. The next time just remember: Everything is possible, you just have to ask if you don't know how to do it yourself. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 We are simple killers of people and destroyers of property.
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