On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:16, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:00:18 -0500 > > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > I don't understand why the switch from xfree to xorg-x11 is a big > > deal. They are currently source and binary compatible. Almost > > everything (if not everything) works the same with xorg-x11 as it > > did with xfree. > > Except that if you do something like this : > emerge sync; emerge -u world > cp -a /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/ssh /etc/pass* /etc/grou* /etc/shad* > /etc/conf.d /etc/pcmcia /etc/rc.conf /var/lib/portage/world /backup > As far as I know this is not an issue with xorg-x11 at all. In any case the needed removal of xfree is a manual step that should tell users that something important changed and that they should be aware of it. I don't see where a new profile is necessary. Especially since it is allready very easy to run xorg-x11 and all initial bugs/issues have about been solved. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net