On jeudi, nov 28, 2002, at 12:45 Europe/Paris, David wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160Hello The installition guide has:
[a lot of old obsolete stuff]
I wish to add cfree-rootless as a choice as well. While I read the info on XonX AND XFREE ROOTLESS I AM NTO QUITE SURE WHAT THE PACKAGE ITSELF DOES, so I can explain it.Since you were not around at the time, you cannot know it: There used to be three packages for xfree86: *-base, *-server, and *-rootless. A remark about this can be found on
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#fink
"(In the early days, Fink also had an xfree86-server package which only provided fullscreen mode, but this is no longer a relevant option.)"
The *-rootless package is the successor of both *-server and *-rootless. As a naming scheme, it would have been more natural to retain the *-server name and dump the *-rootless package, but for reasons of upgradability, the *-rootless name survived.
BTW, there are more details about this part of fink's history to be detected in the older versions of the web pages in the cvs repository. The disappearance of the xfree86-server package, for instance, is visible in the diffs between r1.15 and r1.16 of web/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php, compare
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fink/web/doc/x11/inst- xfree86.php.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.15&r2=text&tr2=1.16&diff_format=h
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Martin
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