Just tried on fresh install. First I edited
/etc/make.conf with the two lines mentioned. Then, I ran
and rebooted.
Next I ran
(I hadn't installed ports during installation.)
At that point, I went into
/usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server but when I ran
it was unable to fetch the distfile.
At that point, I once again checked out the
subversion repo as mentioned in my previous post, along with downloading the merge script, also mentioned in the previous post, and running it too.
Remember, I hadn't yet installed any ports at all, including those for X.
So, after running
subversion fetching the merge script and running that, running
portmaster -a (which didn't find anything to be updated, I was able to install
xorg-server
So, it seems that, at least for me, on a fresh 9.1 install, it was necessary to get the extra repository.
Therefore, I would think that soon enough, it will become transparent to the user.
Thanks for your help. (As I said, I've been away from FreeBSD for a few years, and am just doing some dabbling this weekend--in the course of reminding myself how to do things I've come across several of your posts and other writings, which have been of great help).