Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:06:28 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.5 to 4.6 - effect on X11 ??? Message-ID: <20020618120628.GA3458@scott1.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <021601c216b4$ac8d2210$b50d030a@PATRICK> References: <021601c216b4$ac8d2210$b50d030a@PATRICK>
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:41:09PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Hi all, > > I have had 4.5 running, and have now cvsup-ed my 'development' box to > 4.6. I understand that with 4.6 the default X11 version has been moved > up to 4.2.0. So, does this mean that once I have completed cvsup, make > world, etc, that all the X11 stuff in the base system is now 4.2.0? > > The reason I ask is because I have subsequently tried to install KDE3 > from the ports and it is trying to install X11-4.2 from the ports too, > which strikes me as strange if 4.2 the system's default version of X11. No, X11 is, (I think) considered a 3rd party application. Therefore, it's not going to be updated with a make world. (Regardless of whether I'm right or not about it being a 3rd party app, it's not updated with make world.) Upgrading the machine to a newer release will not upgrade X. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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