From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 23: 1:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5553137BA9A for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA29692; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:00:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA04896; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:00:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA04890; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:00:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:00:38 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: francois laurand Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why XFree sources don't go in /usr/src ? In-Reply-To: <200003290849.IAA03063@hermes.epita.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG They aren't essential to the OS... and they aren't maintained by the FreeBSD project.. they are maintained by the XFree86 project.. There are probably other reasons too ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Wed, 29 Mar 100, francois laurand wrote: > Hi everibody, > I don't really understand why XFree sources are considered as a port. > Shouldn't they go inside /usr/src or /usr/src/contrib as others essential > components of the FreeBSD operating system ? > > Pierre-Francois LAURAND > lauran_r@epita.fr > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message