Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:47:14 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <19980302094714.18899@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <353.888824865@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:47:45PM -0800 References: <34FA5E08.611585A4@san.rr.com> <353.888824865@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>
> Actually, this would be far from consistent - it would confuse the
> piss out of folks who've become more than used to /usr/X11R6 as the
> location for X libraries and binaries over the last 3 years. Changing
> it at this juncture would only be a recipe for complete and utter
> chaos.
Agreed. Just a comment: /usr/X11R6 is a growing beastie. All X related
things (app-defaults, libs, binaries, headers) get installed in it.
Consequence: /usr/X11R6 easily grows above 100 Mbytes, and this is
incompatible with the notion of a static, ro /usr.
It's a problem during installation if you're going to unpack X:
- either you make /usr 200 Mb or so (knowing you'll be doing dump+restore
sooner than you'd want),
- or you make it the 90 Mbytes it's happy with, and go to the
emergency shell and _remember_ to make /usr/local/X11R6 and
symlink. Am I alone ?
"Now it'd be nice if"© a simple dialog box popped
up during sysinstall saying, "hey, you chose to install X, you have
less than N megabytes for /usr, but you have 3 Terabytes in
/usr/local: [do you want to | you should ] create /usr/local/X11R6,
and make a symlink in /usr ?"
I might (*shudder*) even look at sysinstall's code (*tremble*)
and see if I can do it myself, if there's interest.
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
«Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead
IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?»
- S. Kelly Bootle, ("MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib)
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