From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 21:18:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF4C16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452DB43D1D for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:18:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-24-21-18-195.client.comcast.net[24.21.18.195]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <20040723211810016006dgjpe>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:18:12 +0000 From: Eric Anholt To: Jesse Sheidlower In-Reply-To: <20040723210221.GA17594@panix.com> References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> <20040723210221.GA17594@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1090617489.2748.42.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:18:09 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:18:13 -0000 On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:02, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:11:09PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > > OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. > > No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has > > been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of > > FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade > > by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. > > Thanks very much! > > If one has already upgraded to the xorg ports, what is > necessary so that dependencies of other modules are switched > to the xorg equivalents? That is, right now, every time I > upgrade a port that depends on X, I have to pkgdb -F and > change XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 to xorg-fonts-type1-6.7.0, > etc. etc. through all the different ports. Nothing. Unless your system defaults to XFree86 (older than -current), in which case you set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in make.conf. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org