31 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-archRe: Installing XFree86 package via sy...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Makoto Matsushita | Jun 20, 2002 9:57 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jun 21, 2002 1:44 pm | |
| Will Andrews | Jun 21, 2002 3:31 pm | |
| Makoto Matsushita | Jun 21, 2002 9:32 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 22, 2002 2:35 am | |
| Will Andrews | Jun 22, 2002 1:05 pm | |
| Alfred Perlstein | Jun 22, 2002 1:42 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 22, 2002 6:54 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Jun 22, 2002 7:12 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jun 22, 2002 9:51 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 23, 2002 6:05 am | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 23, 2002 6:08 am | |
| Makoto Matsushita | Jun 23, 2002 8:26 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jun 23, 2002 8:54 am | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 23, 2002 9:13 am | |
| Doug Barton | Jun 23, 2002 12:24 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jun 23, 2002 12:37 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jun 23, 2002 12:40 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Jun 23, 2002 12:49 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 23, 2002 12:51 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Jun 23, 2002 12:55 pm | |
| Bruce Evans | Jun 23, 2002 12:57 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Jun 23, 2002 1:07 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jun 23, 2002 1:59 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 23, 2002 2:15 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jun 23, 2002 2:20 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 23, 2002 2:49 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jun 23, 2002 3:09 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jun 23, 2002 3:41 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Jun 23, 2002 5:15 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smorgrav | Jun 24, 2002 2:59 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not? | |
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| From: | Doug Barton (Dou...@FreeBSD.org) | |
| Date: | Jun 23, 2002 12:49:24 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-arch | |
David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:26:49AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
Current situations: 3) The startx users think that XFree86 4.2 is broken, X server can't start. FreeBSD bundles XFree86 4.2. As a result, they says "Latest FreeBSD's X server is broken."
How to solve: 4a) Write documents, to explain that "startx users should install X wrapper separately, since sysinstall doesn't automatically install the wrapper." 4b) Install X wrapper after XFree86 installation is finished. 4c) Add X wrapper itself into XFree86 meta-port. 4d) Do nothing.
Current situation is 4d), I propose 4b) in the last email, and some others suggests 4c).
You will have the same problem with `pkg_add -r XFree86' if you choose "4b". That is why I am opposed to only handling it in Sysinstall.
In addition to "4c", the granular menu of X bits one wishes to install needs to be re-added. I tried this, but either bugs in libdialog or my knowledge of its API caused me to fail in the short time I had to do the XF4 changes this before 4.6.
Well, I just fixed a bug in the textbox part of dialog(1), if that helps you any. :) I also thought of another point... even if we see using xdm as a "better" solution than startx, users will still need to be able to startx in order to get their X configuration nice and tidy before they try xdm. So, I'm still in favor of installing the wrapper with the X install. I'd rather educate the few users who know they won't need it to delete it after the install, rather than take the (legitimate) complaints from those who need it, but don't have it.
Doug
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