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Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowingsystem? (fwd)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowingsystem? (fwd)
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Harold,
I really hate to say this, but "I told you so"... :-D
Igor
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:26:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anybody <userwaldo<at>theeggbeater<dot>net>
To: cygwin-xfree<at>cygwin<dot>com
Subject: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system?
Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system?
When I do a fresh install, I see that a couple of packages in the removed
packages section are still selected.
These are XFree86-base and XFree86-bin. Are these really necessary is I
install xorg-x11-base and xorg-xll-bin?