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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:08:04 +0100
From:      Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
To:        Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why do all ports want Xfree86 3.3.6_8?
Message-ID:  <20010417110804.A86484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010417022940.J14114-100000@benny.geektank.org>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:30:54AM -0700
References:  <20010417101223.A85480@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010417022940.J14114-100000@benny.geektank.org>

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* Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> [010417 10:34]:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote:
> 
> > * Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> [010417 08:11]:
> > > depends on Xfree86 3.3.6_8!  Why would all these ports depend on a version
> > > of Xfree86 that I don't even have installed? Should I manually change
> > > these depencies to 4.0.3_3?
> >
> > Or put
> >
> > XFREE86_VERSION=4
> >
> > in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> Do you mean /etc/defaults/make.conf? 

I didn't, but that will work.

> I didn't see any mention of this line
> in the existing /etc/defaults/make.conf, so I'm assumign I just add the
> specified line at the end of teh file?

Yup. It also makes life easier for things like Mesa
(doesn't try to install it's own GL libraries as X has them built in)

-- 
Rasputin
Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns

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