From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 23:31:45 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 32E0516A4E2 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:31:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sailorfred@yahoo.com) Received: from web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3065443D58 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:31:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sailorfred@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 38790 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Jul 2006 23:31:43 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qQ1JB6qMcMNpqyXZFLhOjeoX40+0+r64ovljIrdOPkrPr1/OnoWhF0J/Nd+fd6MU+ndDiGLPt/jc8nMoJlbi5fuK2VLqkxdn4yVEuuzBv624s77Axr9Hj++LH9Y2HEv0YqkCWVFpoTyOOjq6qbgdxRC76bOO1yvlUY8j9VOh/g4= ; Message-ID: <20060712233143.38788.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.18.7.193] by web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:31:43 PDT Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:31:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cox To: John Merryweather Cooper , Dejan Lesjak In-Reply-To: <44B578EE.202@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 23:31:45 -0000 What about duplicated file names? On my desktop: [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/man/whatis -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 162506 Jul 8 04:15 /usr/X11R6/man/whatis -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 48606 Jul 8 04:15 /usr/local/man/whatis [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13 May 7 14:20 /usr/X11R6/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13 May 7 14:20 /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/XMLnamespaces -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/X11R6/share/mime/XMLnamespaces -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 56 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/X11R6/share/mime/aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2038 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/local/share/mime/aliases [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/globs -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 92 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/X11R6/share/mime/globs -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12850 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/local/share/mime/globs [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/magic -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/X11R6/share/mime/magic -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11275 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/local/share/mime/magic [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/subclasses -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/X11R6/share/mime/subclasses -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3202 Mar 26 00:05 /usr/local/share/mime/subclasses --- John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com