From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 23:20:08 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 301E916A4DA for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1434443D46 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:20:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so29533pye for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:20:06 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Uj+WMqMoZD3iiAbPl1Wda8LMSFIbHhuYp9YXnvecYAWK6wYz6GqL2rWlke7b5Jw8Pp8PVm+5e4ub0+0oMv2vy2mfVqBBu1LGC/6mLKjIYLIVfyXHcZ/BB99t0nun24xWIEQCu+HLdI2Fvjn9W13lXmMc2z3w/9/RQ/RZHV1VeUc= Received: by 10.35.88.18 with SMTP id q18mr61130pyl; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.87.9 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:20:06 +0000 From: "michael johnson" Sender: buhnux@gmail.com To: "Dejan Lesjak" In-Reply-To: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0409cbb28f915c5d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 23:20:08 -0000 On 7/12/06, 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. > I agree we should move a lot of software out of X11BASE but there will need to be a lot of work (esp. for gnome). I'm curious of the time frame in which xorg 7 will be committed to the tree? I'm not speaking for the entire freebsd gnome team but if we did decide to take on this task it would probably take several months to fully test and get everything working well in LOCALBASE. I think the major hurdle for us isn't moving everything to LOCALBASE it's more of the upgrade path people will have to take, having to rebuild all gnome components and all the bugs that will follow.. Michael On behalf of x11 team, > Dejan > > >