JoaoBR wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > It didn't. All the drivers were in one huge package, the X server. Now > > they are in seperate ports. But the xorg or xorgs-drivers meta-ports > > should install all of them. > > ok, that is what I ment, the better way would be that portupgrade installs > them all as before (when they were in the package)
That's exactly what happens when you install the xorg meta port (as explained in the UPDATING instructions). > > Tools like portupgrade and portmaster and even the ports system are > > great but they have their limitations. I think they are kept relatively > > simple for a reason. It's much better to have a simple (maintainable) > > tool that does 95% of the jobs well than to build an extremely > > complicated ACME contraption that can cover all the corner cases and > > oddball situations. It's just not worth the effort. > > I agree and totally understandable but when there is a big change involved > then it would be wise to advise more clearly what is happening from within > the upgrade process because almost nobody reads the files I think that's wrong. Almost everybody reads UPDATING. Those who don't start threads on one of the mailing lists. > other ports do it for less and a message like local base has changed you > need > to edit your xorg.conf or something would do good here If someone refused to read UPDATING, then why would he not ignore a message that scrolls through the screen at some point? As others have already stated, there are very detailed instructions in /usr/port/UPDATING. You should not blindly update your ports without looking at that file. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd With Perl you can manipulate text, interact with programs, talk over networks, drive Web pages, perform arbitrary precision arithmetic, and write programs that look like Snoopy swearing. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
