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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:58:12 -0400
From:      "Drew Derbyshire" <avatar+public@canary.kew.com>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Building /usr/X11R6/bin/
Message-ID:  <023f01c0cdc2$0f73ca10$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com>
References:  <01c201c0cda0$b5db6650$94cba8c0@hh.kew.com> <20010425120737.D49519@guinness.osdn.com>

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> make world doesn't touch X.  X is not part of the base system, it's 3rd
party software

Just as an aside ...

I'm caught off guard because it is inconsistent with other third party
components.  SENDMAIL and the various GNU tools are third-party as well, but
they go into the base system (as opposed to the /usr/local tree) using the
same system binary installation procedure as X binaries -- but these other
components are built with the base system.  X is installed from the dist
files (as opposed to package files) and into the base system (as opposed to
the /usr/local/ tree), so one can reasonably expect them to be installed in
a like fashion.

But of course, it's not.  :-)

> .  If you want to update X, use the port.

Hmmm.  The ports aren't building.  But that's another matter....

-ahd-


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