Subject: Re: xsrc/5676: XF86Setup
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/29/1998 15:19:07
> In article <18134.899145591@dnaunix.pa.dec.com>,
> 	"Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> writes:
> > This only makes sense if X is a package as well, and installing X gets
> > you that bit.
> 
> All you need to do is "pkg_add XF86Setup-3.3.2.tgz". I don't think that
> is to hard. It just should be mentioned in the installation documents.

(1) That's not particularly hard, _if_ you remember to download the
bits.

(2) People used to XFree86 installations will be surprised to find
XF86Setup in an entirely different place, with an entirely different
install process, than the rest of the X bits.


In other words, it's not impossibly hard, but it's much harder than it
should be.



cgd