From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jan 29 11:20:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA23595 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:20:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23581 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id UAA11602; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:00:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA07920; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:39:08 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:39:08 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Dave Glowacki cc: tim@sssun.spb.su, "David E. O'Brien" , "Andrew V. Stesin" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: imake & /usr/local In-Reply-To: <199601291414.IAA20989@tick.SSEC.WISC.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Dave Glowacki wrote: > > I'd prefer /usr/local/X11/*, as well as stock X11 into /usr/X11/*, not > > /usr/X11R6. When R7 come out we then shouldn't change this again, > > and a little less typing :-) > > Having done this three times now (R3 -> R4 -> R5 -> R6) I've gotta say that > it's MUCH easier to have things segregated by release number if you have a > significant number of programs. > > Not EVERYTHING changes, but enough does that it's handy to have an old > version and a new version available. xscreensaver, for example, used the > XIdle extension under R5 but uses the new Screensaver extension under R6. > > Besides, we're alledgedly only going to have to worry about this for one > more release (X11R6.1), after which we'll start with BroadwayR1... agreed ! /usr/X11Rx isn't that bad. So we should have /usr/local/X11Rx as well ?! ;-)) -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<