Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-12-01 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Frank Staals wrote: Freminlins wrote: snip Err, yeah. Look through hundreds of packages to see which dependencies they have. Helpful. Not. This way of doing X11 is seriously unhelpful to end users. If having individual packages for everything is so good, please tell me why everything

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Freminlins wrote: I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net.

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Freminlins
On 29/11/2007, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I do a pkg_add -r xorg. After about 70 packages I give up. I only used to have about 65 packages in total on my old desktop, now I need more than 70 and I haven't even got x windows up yet. So I go off and have a look and

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Frank Staals
Freminlins wrote: snip Err, yeah. Look through hundreds of packages to see which dependencies they have. Helpful. Not. This way of doing X11 is seriously unhelpful to end users. If having individual packages for everything is so good, please tell me why everything in /bin, /usr/bin and so on

7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-28 Thread Freminlins
I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net. But something has

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-28 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Freminlins wrote: I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net.