From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 19:18:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED65116A407 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD92443D45 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:18:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F91F1A3C1A for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C489B517CF; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:01 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:18:03 -0000 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > Hi, >=20 > according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be > dropped in favour for LOCALBASE. >=20 > Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how should > we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro > when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides > that?=20 >=20 > A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-). It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway). Kris --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN89mWry0BWjoQKURAhLsAJ9oXPpDvNzwlf400rQGvGH+PCCaNQCgtuPl 7LOAP3zXQDEQF3RL+xUqsN4= =f9Mu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--