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> various custom files.  I'd actually forgotten about app-defaults, I'll
> have to add that in; one of my goals is to divorce the `X11
> distribution' from the locally-installed software so that the X11
> system can be upgraded independently.  Moving individual applications'

Funny you should mention this.

I have ended up keeping the X part of /usr/local logically separate
for precisely these reasons, and one more:  When I was using SunOS,
I preferred MIT X (mostly because they were at least 2 years ahead
of OpenWindows).  However, some applications just really needed to
run on OpenWindows, so I had to isolate X from the rest of the apps
because which window system I choose when invoking an app was very
much context dependent.  My solution was too ugly to mention, but
the MIT and the OpenWindows apps got along fine.

Ern