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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 15:07:16 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/xorg-libraries Makefile
Message-ID:  <20070522190716.GA77363@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <864pm5ntxl.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200705220728.l4M7S2ZL053720@repoman.freebsd.org> <864pm5ntxl.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:28:38AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   The instructions in UPDATING are also applicable for fresh installations
> >   of X, so try to ease user confusion.
> 
> I don't understand why one would need to jump through hoops to install
> X.org 7.2 on a clean system.

There are a few reasons, mostly to do with old systems and getting the
symlink.  Note that in the "clean" case some of the instructions are
NOPs.

Kris



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