Re: Where did startx go?

In our last episode, <1180618698.56106@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the lovely and
talented Howard Goldstein broadcast on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:

On 31 May 2007 05:51:56 GMT, Lars Eighner <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: In our last episode,
: <slrnf5so2c.flt.bitbucket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
: the lovely and talented Russell Wood
: broadcast on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:
:
: > On 2007-05-31, Lars Eighner <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: >> Okay, using the script in UPGRADING uprgading xorg seem to go fairly well
: >> as these things go. (except some my ppp.conf file got overwritten, and
: >> I can't figure why that would happen)
: >>
: >> But startx no longer seems to exist. Where did it go?
:
: > Does `xinit' work for you?
:
: Thanks, anyway for the moment. Although the script ground for a long time
: and upgraded a lot of stuff, it seems it did not actually upgrade xorg
: and only ripped /usr/X11R6 out. Plain old portuprgrade on xorg is still
: working.
:

I think startx went away a long time ago

Well, now that the portupgrade after the xorg upgrade script has finished
startx appears to exist in /usr/local/bin.

Anyone who hasn't tried to upgrade xorg yet is strongly advised to backup
the whole of /etc/X11R6 to someplace completely out of the way of the
carnage. It is amazing how many apps have crap in there that you are likely
to want.

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