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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:52:13 +0200
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/files manpagespatch-programs::Imakefile
Message-ID:  <20040823115213.GA1077@voodoo.oberon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040823113633.GA9200@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200408231102.i7NB29iV069761@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040823113633.GA9200@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:36:33AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
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> BTW, since xorg-clients provide xterm (as it been for years with XFree86),
> what was the reason to separate xterm from it?  Or is it so special client
> that user might want to do something about it (i.e., upgrade) separately
> from the rest of xorg-* ports?  For me, xterm is just another reference
> implementation like twm, xclock, etc, taking into account that there're m=
any
> other terminal emulators available in ports (aterm, eterm, konsole, etc).

xterm development is running independently from XFree86, with
frequent new releases.  xterm version supplied with
XFree86/xorg is pretty old one.

-Kirill

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