Hello,

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gentoo Users,
> 
> This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org
> got installed on my system.
> 
> When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org...
> and I recently discovered during an "emerge -upD world" that it's
> recompiling X.org. I'm assuming I must have kicked off an "emerge
> world" in the past, left it running overnight, woke up the next
> morning to find that everything was still OK, and never noticed the
> transition...
> 
> Any suggestions as to how I can find this out? Does anyone know when
> XFree86 was deprecated in Portage?

starting with 2004-12-31, XFree86 has been considered deprecated, and
replaced with x11-xorg. There is an email on gentoo-dev mailing list
stating this.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/23524

> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> ...Ric
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> Ric de France
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