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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:51:04 -0700
From:      David Varieur <davar@mwvcaa.org>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unwanted XFree86 stuff in 4.7
Message-ID:  <20021022075104.45954fdb.davar@mwvcaa.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021022094205.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20021022094205.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net>

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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:42:05 -0500
"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> wrote:

> On all of the production boxes, I am running 4.5-RELEASE p-20 and have been
> waiting to take the plunge on 4.7 after it settled down. Last night I
> installed 4.7-RELEASE from an ISO on a test box. While the install went
> smoothly, I noticed that a bunch of "XFree...." stuff is installed even
> though I don't use nor want to run an "X" server, if this is what "XFree"
> pertains to. Further, the first thing I did after the ISO install was to
> CVSup and then found that a number of ports "needed updating" all related
> to "XFree...". It's taking a HUGE amount of time to update things because
> of this unwanted XFree stuff. None of this XFree stuff is on my 4.5 boxes.
> First concern was I noticed the "f" version of cvsup-without-gui install
> took a looonnnnggg time.
> 

Did you install cvsup-without-gui? If not, you installed the GUI version which requires X.

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