Xorg disaster

[Alex Goncharov]

,--- Glen Barber (Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:55:07 -0500) ----*
| On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Alex Goncharov
| <alex-goncharov at comcast.net> wrote:
| > The path is (roughly):
| >
| > 1. Find the dependencies of xproto and xextproto:
| >
| >   pkg_info -R xproto-\* xextproto-\* | wc -l
| >
| >   Prepare to remove those (new) packages from your system.
| 
| I, too, chose plan 'b'.  However, I did it differently.  After
| building Xorg, I removed xorg-server, xorg-drivers, and hal, and
| re-installed them w/ pkg_add.
|
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Which reminds me: instead of FTP, you can just use "pkg_add -r" -- it
should get you the old (good) packages from the FTP site.

I used direct FTP for the sake of having more control, but "pkg_add
-r" should get you there -- and faster.

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov at comcast.net --