Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:53:57 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <200607141353.57338.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <20060713235936.12109.qmail@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060713235936.12109.qmail@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 14 July 2006 01:59, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Just here mumbling...
>
> It would be interesting to set
>
> X11BASE=/usr/X11 when using XFree86 and
> X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} when using XOrg.
>
> Not only due to historical consistency (/usr/X11 is the path recommended in
> XFree86 manpages), but as a way to be able to use XFree86 and keep the
> system somewhat cleaner.
Well, I was planing XFree86 would move to LOCALBASE as well - if it doesn't,
ports depending on X11 would have to special case XFree86 libraries and
includes and such, which would make system a bit less clean. Why do you think
using /usr/X11 would make things cleaner?
Dejan
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