Erik Trulsson wrote : >>When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message >>explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does >>anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add >>xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package? >> >> > >Adding xwrapper as a dependency is a good idea. It is in fact such a >good idea that it has already been done, about a month ago. > At the risk of looking even stupider on a public mailing list; it really doesn't appear to have been installed by sysinstall when X was. Here is a pkg_info from an 'almost' virgin install.
$ pkg_info XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-Server-4.2.0_3 XFree86-4 X server and related programs XFree86-clients-4.2.0_2 XFree86-4 Client environments XFree86-documents-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Document Files XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_1 XFree86-4 include/(shared) library kit apache-1.3.24_7 The extremely popular Apache http server. Very fast, very freetype2-2.0.9 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine imake-4.2.0_1 Imake and other utilities from XFree86 lynx-2.8.4.1b_1 A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client mod_php4-4.2.1_1 PHP4 module for Apache mysql-client-3.23.49 Multithreaded SQL database (client) mysql-server-3.23.49 Multithreaded SQL database (server) p5-DBI-1.21 The perl5 Database Interface. Required for DBD::* modules p5-Data-ShowTable-3.3 Perl5 module to pretty-print arrays of data p5-Mysql-modules-1.2216 Perl5 modules for accessing MySQL databases tcsh-6.11.00 An extended C-shell with many useful features $ Or am I still managing to misunderstand? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message