x11/chapter.sgml patch in progress

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sat Apr 15 17:50:10 PDT 2006


On Sat, April 15, 2006 4:40 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> This is untested and a work in progress. Please have a quick review.
> After I test building I plan on committing. Even if this has errors
> it is better than what we have now and it will be easier to work on.

Looks good; I only found two things:

> @@ -698,7 +677,7 @@
>          <author>
>            <firstname>Joe Marcus</firstname>
>            <surname>Clarke</surname>
> -          <contrib>Updated for &xfree86; 4.3 by </contrib>
> +          <contrib>Updated for &xorg; 4.3 by </contrib>
>            <!-- May 2003 -->
>          </author>
>        </authorgroup>

The version number can be removed, since that's an XFree86ism.

>            from the network, simply type:</para>
>
> -        <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r
> gnome2</userinput></screen>
> +        <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add
> gnome2</userinput></screen>

This isn't something this document can resolve, but we ought to have some
sort of package mirror, so we can ship releases with a destination set for
binary packages.  It would make setup much, much easier if pkg_add is the
only thing people need, instead of setup.






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