Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:10:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp Subject: Re: Making XFree86-4 the default Message-ID: <20000910101026.B15703@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:43:42AM -0700 References: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Saturday, 9 September 2000 at 6:43:42 -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Hi, > > What do you guys think about making XFree86-4-* the default now? With > the split-up XFree86-4 ports and the xtt-* servers (which are > basically 3.3.6 servers plus TrueType patches), I think everyone can > have a reasonable system. > > Those who don't want XFree86-4 can still set XFREE86_VERSION=3 in > their /etc/make.conf, but I will be generating packages with XF8V set > to 4 and also the package build logs will be showing up for 4 only. > > There are still many ports that have problems with XFree86-4 (most > notable the HTML manpage stuff) but we have 2 months to fix those > before the next release. I'd definitely like to see this. I'm in the process of writing the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and it's a sensible time to describe 4 instead of 3. I can't address the bugginess issues, except to say that they don't seem to be biting me. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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