Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? (fwd)

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Apr 8 17:34:00 GMT 2004


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?



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