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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:35:32 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: moving to XFree86-4
Message-ID:  <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B69550D.3060803@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:26:37AM -0400
References:  <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B69550D.3060803@lmc.ericsson.se>

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:26:37AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote:
| I found that pkg_delete -a and make install of all necessary ports is an 
| extremely healthy activity as it removes a extremely big load of crap 
| (read: useless/unused software).
| 
| Just reinstall it all. You probably don't need that much anyways. ;)

Any caveats I should look out for moving to version 4?

| 
| For the record, I don't any easy way.
| 
| A.
| 
| j mckitrick wrote:
| > If I have backup up my old /usr/X11R6, is there an easy way to move my apps
| > to XFree86-4?  Or do I need to 'make reinstal' all of my X ports?
| > 
| > jm
| > 
| 
| 
| -- 
| Antoine Beaupré
| Jambala TCM team
| Ericsson Canada inc.
| mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca


jm
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