From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 22:34:28 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 D877C16A4DF for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp102.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp102.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1089043D45 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:34:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 24701 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2006 22:34:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ctPThyPIcLX2ZJFS70yXbqJMCplVIPbQCN3dxH8MgbUymRa8yHf10nsuMY78M0S8j7IoeBifHrwYuSeqm+MKFZ28DYyJuYKBdVBUnT7SEps0nYVAghWOyVKablJNpAcWsgXS1x6WfLFiVRWsjgR8n5Luu/2zTX8m5tzsGNXILQw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO borgdemon2.clspco.adelphia.net) (j.m.cooper@borgsdemons.com@67.22.17.55 with login) by smtp102.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2006 22:34:27 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by borgdemon2.clspco.adelphia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E685C46; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:34:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44B578EE.202@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:34:22 -0500 From: John Merryweather Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060617) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dejan Lesjak References: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:34:28 -0000 Dejan Lesjak wrote: > Hello, > > There were a couple of debates already concerning /usr/X11R6 as prefix for X11 > ports and a bunch of other ports that currently by default install there. > Quite some people were, when creating a new port that depends on X11, > wandering whether to put it in X11BASE or LOCALBASE. More than once a > question of whether the prefix /usr/X11R6 should be just dropped or at least > only retained for core X11 distribution. With the upcoming X.org 7.x ports > there is perhaps the opportunity to do the prefix merger along that. > Moving X11 prefix to LOCALBASE would simplify above dilemma. It would be also > more similar to where linux distributions are going (at least Gentoo, Debian > and Fedora deprecated /usr/X11R6 in favour of /usr which, while > not /usr/local is the location of where all packages install - depending on > X11 or not). If I remember correctly from previous discussions, it would be > more convenient to people with separate mounts for installed packages as > well. /usr/local is also the default value for --prefix configure option for > X.org packages. > So it is general intention to go with /usr/local or rather ${LOCALBASE} as > prefix for X11 ports. If anyone feels that this is horribly wrong, please > speak up. > > On behalf of x11 team, > Dejan > What impact (if any) would the doubling or tripling of the number of files in ./bin have on searching along PATH? Would we be shooting ourselves in the foot if we did this? jmc