“Ok, Mark. You’re right. There are lots of solutions to have xfce4 working on your g/fbsd 7.0 box”.
I’m currently writing this because mark_alec commented my last blag entry saying that if you put games-misc/fortune-mod in /etc/portage/package.provided you can easily emerge xfce4. That’s right. But, there are 2 issues. 1) You haven’t the fortune of the day 2) This solution isn’t clean.
I noticed that compiling recode w/ USE=”-nls” you can emerge fortune-mod and have xfce4 working and showing you “the fortune of the day”. However, the idea to reimplement fortune-mod using somethin’ more sane than librecode is interesting (and isn’t also quite difficult), so when I’ll have a bit of time (probably never) I’ll give a look at the source code. About xfce, if you don’t believe I’m running it on g/fbsd, here’s a screenshot. This is enough, I guess.
Ever talking about g/fbsd, the team is currently waiting for vapier to close two bugs, and to commit 7.0 ebuilds in portage. 
I’m currently testing some packages, but talking w/ dev-zero I noticed that he’s starting a project about virtualization on gentoo, so I think I’ll work about virtualization on gentoo/freebsd. Or better I’ll try working on.. See you soon w/ new updates.
Kind regards
dav
