From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 28 04:44:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA02604 for current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 04:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02598 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 04:44:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA08105; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:39:33 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199512281239.MAA08105@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: XFree86 configuration files (was: pcnfsd..) To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:39:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, rgrimes%gndrsh.aac.dev.com.asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512280051.SAA09823@rmurphy.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at Dec 27, 95 06:51:06 pm Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rich Murphey who said > > The flaw in this seems to be that the core release wasn't > intended to be installed in a separate location from all the > non-core clients and other data. Uhh, yeah, this is the point I was getting at which is outside our scope really and needs to be discussed by the X guys. I'd want something conceptually similar to the way that we can separate the "core" FreeBSD code and the add-on packages. It doesn't seem easy to do that with X11 and non-core X packages. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)