Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:53 +0000 From: "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <b2203fed0607141200k73b2ffc7x7363ea12ca1c17fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060714184154.78925.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <op.tcoxd11r9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20060714184154.78925.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 7/14/06, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> ha scritto: > > > > > > Nobody should install both xorg and xfree86 at the same time. It's > pretty > > pointless and it would cause more messy when you try to build other > ports > > that depend on either of it. Move everything in LOCALBASE, nothing more > > and nothing less, is much cleaner. > > > > Consider the following scenario: > > Happy owner of an (lets say) ATI card wants to use FreeBSD but he REALLY > needs > OpenGL. He decides to give XFree86 a try since he has heard on XOrg the > accelerated OpenGL doesn't work very well yet. > > Happy owner installs some non-X packages and then installs XFree86. He > then > goes throught the work of setting up his build for building everything > with > XFree86. When a "working" XOrg release comes he'll have to massively > deinstall > packages including XFree86 (and his configuration files) just to check if > XOrg > now works. > > Having it's own prefix, he still has to remove packages, but at least now > he > knows most of the conflicting packages will be in /usr/X11, and if there > is > "garbage" left he can still do rm -rf /usr/X11 without fear of removing > non-X > stuff. > > If POLA is important here, I guess leaving X11BASE as it is now > (/usr/X11R6) > for XFree86 is the way to go. I'm not saying we should be able to run > different > Xservers in the same box (although that is not a bad idea altogether), but > that > we could, and should, alleviate the issues of people wanting to run > XFree86, > especially since it comes at no cost. for the few people this would apply to they could always add something to make.conf to install Xfree86 in /usr/X11R6 or xorg or what ever and have both installed. Pedro > > Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! > http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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