From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 19:52:02 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 B250716A417 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:52:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@sysfault.org) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D386343D5D for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:51:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@sysfault.org) Received: (qmail 22248 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2006 19:51:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO medusa.sysfault.org) (936934@[89.182.94.39]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Oct 2006 19:51:43 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=medusa.sysfault.org) by medusa.sysfault.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gadz4-000FoP-8x for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:55:18 +0200 Received: (from marcus@localhost) by medusa.sysfault.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k9JJtHkv060784 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:55:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcus) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:55:16 +0200 From: Marcus von Appen To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061019195516.GC2023@medusa.sysfault.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Marcus von Appen List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:52:02 -0000 --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 :-= ). >=20 > 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). So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever possible from now on? Regards Marcus --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN9gko/JpszXavhwRAjmYAKCFOZf8ekXg046vrRZOVMeW5lS4OQCeKI2s oxDeZUaLqoGM8XJQ61kx2eE= =iOFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz--