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Old 14th April 2011
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
Xenocara is part of the base system, as is Mesa.

Building the userland, including X, has never involved the ports tree.. and while regular users are not encouraged to build X themselves, that doesn't mean it isn't a critical component of the base system that gets built by the developers.

These days it's almost discouraged NOT to install the X sets.
Then I can easily see the situation in the future in which there would be choice for OpenBSD either to completely fork X and kill C++ Mesa (and possibly some other things which might in future be written in C++) or to add support for C++ to PCC which is probably even more difficult.
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