I've heard that some users forget to install X wrapper while installing FreeBSD to a fresh PC. As a result, they can't run X server with startx. When our X distribution was XFree86 3.x, there was no problem with startx since X server has a suid bit -- for newbies, current sysinstall breaks some compatibilities.

We can fix this by RUN_DEPENDS lines of ports/x11/XFree86-4/Makefile. However, it makes another problem that "hey, XFree86-4 ports install X wrapper which I don't used, no thankyou."

IMHO this problem can be treated as "problem while installing XFree86 via sysinstall," here is a patch to teach sysinstall to install the X wrapper package after XFree86 package is installed.

Any comments and objections are welcome. If there is no objection, I'll commit it later (maybe next week or so).

-- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita

Index: install.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.c,v retrieving revision 1.321 diff -u -r1.321 install.c --- install.c 2 Apr 2002 20:42:52 -0000 1.321 +++ install.c 21 Jun 2002 04:56:18 -0000 @@ -880,6 +880,9 @@ dialog_clear_norefresh(); msgNotify("Installing XFree86 package..."); i = package_add("XFree86-4"); + if (DITEM_STATUS(i) == DITEM_SUCCESS) { + i |= package_add("wrapper"); + } restorescr(w); return i; }

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