From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 22:24:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267FB16A4E5; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:24:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail4.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425DB43D5D; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:24:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (mail4.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014DA17B8F1; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:34 +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 rdfIIlGZKXzn; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from edina.ijs.si (edina.ijs.si [193.2.4.3]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0E817B8B0; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:18 +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 E1EB950828; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:18 +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 k6CMOIxo052376; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) From: Dejan Lesjak To: ports@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Length: 1843 X-UID: 1488 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:03 +0200 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4607109.QuoWKIQQil"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:24:36 -0000 --nextPart4607109.QuoWKIQQil Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello, There were a couple of debates already concerning /usr/X11R6 as prefix for = X11=20 ports and a bunch of other ports that currently by default install there.=20 Quite some people were, when creating a new port that depends on X11,=20 wandering whether to put it in X11BASE or LOCALBASE. More than once a=20 question of whether the prefix /usr/X11R6 should be just dropped or at leas= t=20 only retained for core X11 distribution. With the upcoming X.org 7.x ports= =20 there is perhaps the opportunity to do the prefix merger along that. Moving X11 prefix to LOCALBASE would simplify above dilemma. It would be al= so=20 more similar to where linux distributions are going (at least Gentoo, Debia= n=20 and Fedora deprecated /usr/X11R6 in favour of /usr which, while=20 not /usr/local is the location of where all packages install - depending on= =20 X11 or not). If I remember correctly from previous discussions, it would be= =20 more convenient to people with separate mounts for installed packages as=20 well. /usr/local is also the default value for --prefix configure option fo= r=20 X.org packages. So it is general intention to go with /usr/local or rather ${LOCALBASE} as= =20 prefix for X11 ports. If anyone feels that this is horribly wrong, please=20 speak up. On behalf of x11 team, Dejan --nextPart4607109.QuoWKIQQil Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEtXaSHafbxJbFIh8RAvn9AJ9FIWS2iUmooqqTPalIxaqMGZd2owCfUX+I JcdPbzn64dbOKqDDMQgxFHM= =Q349 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4607109.QuoWKIQQil--