From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 20:02:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEBD16A4DD; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:02:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F5743D7C; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (mailman.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C53217B840; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:02:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([193.2.4.66]) by localhost (mail.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rnw-y6AlOs1o; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from edina.ijs.si (edina.ijs.si [193.2.4.3]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63EE17B912; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from radagast.ijs.si (radagast.ijs.si [193.2.4.168]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by edina.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3C650828; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.ijs.si (localhost.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) by radagast.ijs.si (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6EK20wR062009; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:02:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) From: Dejan Lesjak Organization: IJS To: Doug Barton Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:01:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <200607141300.43547.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <44B7F182.8080009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44B7F182.8080009@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607142201.59511.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:02:39 -0000 On Friday 14 July 2006 21:33, Doug Barton wrote: > Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > On Friday 14 July 2006 08:58, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >> What's the gain? > > > > I believe I mentioned some of gains in first mail. There is also the > > benefit of less divergence to upstreams as ./configure scripts of various > > ports use /usr/local as default prefix, but more importantly as modular > > X.org is becoming more widespread there is tendency of various packagers > > (for example Linux distributions already mentioned) to install all > > packages under same prefix. We expect that if we follow that trend, we > > would make maintainers and users' lives a bit easier in the long run. > > Note, I am still making up my mind about whether what you're proposing is a > good idea or not, so I'm not intending this as a criticism. However, the > argument you propose above as a benefit for the move is completely > specious. Our ports are supposed to be prefix-clean no matter what the > defaults in the distributed software are, and no matter what prefix the > user chooses. Thus (other than ports which are broken now which need fixing > anyway), the only thing this move will do is ADD work for maintainers (at > least in the short run), it will not make anyone's life easier in this > area. Actually, I didn't mean the prefix that some port installs into would be the truble, rather where given port looks for includes, libraries and other files from ports that it depends upon. Dejan