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Date:      Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:11:19 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020428111119.B77837@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:58:05PM -0700
References:  <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020427221418.J56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020427135344.D89190@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020428104843.K56612@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org>

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On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 
> > The problem what I was refering to was that an application from the
> > BASE OS was relying on a library in the PORTS SYSTEM.
> 
> XFree86 isn't part of the base system.  It's a port/package that 
> has a little bit of special support in sysinstall(8).

Too true.

Oh well, I hope that somebody will think about the possible problems
before it gets shipped and I just wanted to give them my experiences.

Edwin

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