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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:27:31 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: xfree4 by default?
Cc: re@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>,
	Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>
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On 02-Jan-02 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> Various things have to be coordinated in parallel for this to work
> seamlessly.  How ready is the ports/package team ready to do a complete
> cut-over for the affected branch?

I think it's a bit late to do this for 4.5.  We are already in code freeze, and
I'd rather wait until after 4.5 to take on a change of this magnitude.

> - Jordan
> 
>> On Tuesday, 1st January 2002, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> 
>> >It wouldn't be that hard in sysinstall either, depending on how
>> >the X bits are packaged.  FWIW, I also think that XFree86 4.x's time
>> >has come.
>> 
>> None of my current video cards work properly with 3.3.6, so I'm all for
>> adding 4.1.0 immediately, rather than post release.  Any chance?
>> 
>> Stephen.
> 

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